[PATCH v8 15/16] arm64: disable recordmcount with DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS

Sami Tolvanen samitolvanen at google.com
Tue Dec 1 16:37:06 EST 2020


DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS uses -fpatchable-function-entry, which makes
running recordmcount unnecessary as there are no mcount calls in object
files, and __mcount_loc doesn't need to be generated.

While there's normally no harm in running recordmcount even when it's
not strictly needed, this won't work with LTO as we have LLVM bitcode
instead of ELF objects.

This change selects FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY, which
disables recordmcount when patchable function entries are used instead.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 1515f6f153a0..c7f07978f5b6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ config ARM64
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS \
 		if $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=2)
+	select FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY \
+		if DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
 	select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
 	select HAVE_FAST_GUP
 	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
-- 
2.29.2.576.ga3fc446d84-goog




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