[PATCH] ARM: Mark ret_fast_syscall as a function

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Drew Richardson wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 01:45:57PM +0100, Drew Richardson wrote:
> > ret_fast_syscall runs when user space makes a syscall. However it
> > needs to be marked as such so the ELF information is correct. Before
> > it was:
> > 
> >    101: 8000f300     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 ret_fast_syscall
> > 
> > But with this change it correctly shows as:
> > 
> >    101: 8000f300    96 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 ret_fast_syscall
> > 
> > I see this function when using perf to unwind call stacks from kernel
> > space to user space. Without this change I would need to add some
> > special case logic when using the vmlinux ELF information.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richardson at arm.com>
> 
> I haven't heard any further comments on this, did this get merged and
> I just didn't notice? Or did I forget to add someone?

Most likely that it is so trivial that nobody paid much attention.

FWIW, you can add

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>

and submit it here: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/


Nicolas