[PATCH] branch tracer: fix freak link error

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Mon Feb 15 09:47:46 PST 2016


On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:26:42 +0100
Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

> In my randconfig tests, I came across a bug that involves several
> components:
> 
>

[..]

> 
> This patch avoids the problem by changing __trace_if() to check
> whether the condition is known at compile-time to be nonzero, rather
> than checking whether it is actually a constant.
> 
> I see this one link error in roughly one out of 1600 randconfig builds
> on ARM, and the patch fixes all known instances.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Fixes: ab3c9c686e22 ("branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y")

Want me to pull this into my queue? I have another patch I need to send
to Linus and I can add this in that pull request.

-- Steve




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