Re: [RFC 2/2] MIPS: tracing/ftrace: Fixes mcount_regex for modules

[wu zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 14:10 -0700, David Daney wrote:
>> On 10/22/2010 01:58 PM, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
>> > From: Wu Zhangjin<wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
>> >
>> > In some situations(with related kernel config and gcc options), the
>> > modules may have the same address space as the core kernel space, so
>> > mcount_regex for modules should also match R_MIPS_26.
>> >
>>
>> I think Steve is rewriting this bit to be a pure C program.

Good reminder, thanks ;-)

Just found "[GIT PULL][2.6.37] ftrace: C version of recordmcount".

>>  Is this
>> file even used anymore?  If so for how long?
>
> It's already in mainline, but is only supported for x86 for now. Until
> we verify that it works for other archs (which is up to you guys to
> verify) the script will still be used.
>

I will verify it asap.

Thanks & Regards,
Wu Zhangjin

> Also, I did not write it, John Reiser did. I just cleaned it up a bit
> and got it working with the build system.
>
> -- Steve
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