[PATCH 03/10] ftrace: allow building without frame pointers

Frederic Weisbecker fweisbec at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 13:36:09 EST 2010


On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 01:18:31AM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> With current gcc, compiling with both -pg and -fomit-frame-pointer is
> not allowed.  However, -pg can be used to build without actually
> specying -fno-omit-frame-pointer, upon which the defaut behaviour for
> the target will be used.


Doh!....


 
> On ARM, it is not possible to build a Thumb-2 kernel with
> -fno-omit-frame-pointer (FRAME_POINTERS depends on !THUMB2_KERNEL). In
> order to support ftrace for Thumb-2, we need to be able to allow a
> combination of FUNCTION_TRACER and !FRAME_POINTER.  We do this by
> omitting -fomit-frame-pointer if ftrace is enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>



I might be missing something subtle on this one, but it looks
good to me.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com>



> ---
>  Makefile |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 67d6cff..72d90de 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -546,8 +546,11 @@ endif
>  ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
>  else
> +ifndef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
> +# -fomit-frame-pointer is incompatible with -pg
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fomit-frame-pointer
>  endif
> +endif
>  ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -g
> -- 
> 1.6.6
> 




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