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<title>linux-toradex.git/scripts/recordmcount.pl, branch tegra-10.9.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core</title>
<updated>2009-08-11T12:19:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-11T12:19:09+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

We use the tracing/core version.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

We use the tracing/core version.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix recordmcount.pl to handle sections with only weak functions</title>
<updated>2009-08-07T06:50:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-06T23:53:18+00:00</published>
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Roland Dreier found that a section that contained only a weak
function in one of the staging drivers and this caused
recordmcount.pl to spit out a warning and fail.

Although it is strange that a driver would have a weak function, and
this function only be used in one place, it should not be something
to make recordmcount.pl fail.

This patch fixes the issue in a simple manner: if only weak
functions exist in a section, then that section will not be
recorded.

Reported-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rdreier@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Roland Dreier found that a section that contained only a weak
function in one of the staging drivers and this caused
recordmcount.pl to spit out a warning and fail.

Although it is strange that a driver would have a weak function, and
this function only be used in one place, it should not be something
to make recordmcount.pl fail.

This patch fixes the issue in a simple manner: if only weak
functions exist in a section, then that section will not be
recorded.

Reported-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rdreier@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: do not use functions starting with .L in recordmcount.pl</title>
<updated>2009-08-06T02:45:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-06T02:00:14+00:00</published>
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On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
&gt; * Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt; wrote:
&gt;
&gt; &gt; Hey,
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; So I spent 3-4 hrs today (I'm stupid yes) tracking down a .o
&gt; &gt; breakage by blaming rawhide gcc/binutils as I was using make
&gt; &gt; V=1and seeing only the compiler chain running,
&gt;
&gt; Hm, is this that powerpc related build bug you just reported?

Well we tracked it down and it is powerpc64 specific.

Seems that in drivers/hwmon/lm93.c there's a function called:

   LM93_IN_FROM_REG()

But PPC64 has function descriptors and the real function names (the ones
you see in objdump) start with a '.'. Thus this in objdump you have:

 Disassembly of section .text:

 0000000000000000 &lt;.LM93_IN_FROM_REG&gt;:
       0:       7c 08 02 a6     mflr    r0
       4:       fb 81 ff e0     std     r28,-32(r1)

The function name used is .LM93_IN_FROM_REG. But gcc considers symbols
that start with ".L" as a special symbol that is used inside the assembly
stage.

The nm passed into recordmcount uses the --synthetic option which shows
the ".L" symbols (my runs outside of the build did not include the
--synthetic option, so my older patch worked). We see the function as a
local.

Now to capture all the locations that use "mcount" we need to have a
reference to link into the object file a list of mcount callers. We need a
reference that will not disappear. We try to use a global function and if
that does not work, we use a local function as a reference. But to relink
the section back into the object, we need to make it global. In this case,
we run objcopy using --globalize-symbol and --localize-symbol to convert
the symbol into a global symbol, link the mcount list, then convert it
back to a local symbol.

This works great except for this case. .L* symbols can not be converted
into a global symbol, and the mcount section referencing it will remain
unresolved.

Reported-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;alpine.DEB.2.00.0908052011590.5010@gandalf.stny.rr.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
&gt; * Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt; wrote:
&gt;
&gt; &gt; Hey,
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; So I spent 3-4 hrs today (I'm stupid yes) tracking down a .o
&gt; &gt; breakage by blaming rawhide gcc/binutils as I was using make
&gt; &gt; V=1and seeing only the compiler chain running,
&gt;
&gt; Hm, is this that powerpc related build bug you just reported?

Well we tracked it down and it is powerpc64 specific.

Seems that in drivers/hwmon/lm93.c there's a function called:

   LM93_IN_FROM_REG()

But PPC64 has function descriptors and the real function names (the ones
you see in objdump) start with a '.'. Thus this in objdump you have:

 Disassembly of section .text:

 0000000000000000 &lt;.LM93_IN_FROM_REG&gt;:
       0:       7c 08 02 a6     mflr    r0
       4:       fb 81 ff e0     std     r28,-32(r1)

The function name used is .LM93_IN_FROM_REG. But gcc considers symbols
that start with ".L" as a special symbol that is used inside the assembly
stage.

The nm passed into recordmcount uses the --synthetic option which shows
the ".L" symbols (my runs outside of the build did not include the
--synthetic option, so my older patch worked). We see the function as a
local.

Now to capture all the locations that use "mcount" we need to have a
reference to link into the object file a list of mcount callers. We need a
reference that will not disappear. We try to use a global function and if
that does not work, we use a local function as a reference. But to relink
the section back into the object, we need to make it global. In this case,
we run objcopy using --globalize-symbol and --localize-symbol to convert
the symbol into a global symbol, link the mcount list, then convert it
back to a local symbol.

This works great except for this case. .L* symbols can not be converted
into a global symbol, and the mcount section referencing it will remain
unresolved.

Reported-by: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;alpine.DEB.2.00.0908052011590.5010@gandalf.stny.rr.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Only update $offset when we update $ref_func</title>
<updated>2009-07-23T16:20:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt@console-pimps.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-23T16:16:15+00:00</published>
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The value of $offset should be the offset of $ref_func from the
beginning of the object file. Therefore, we should set both variables
together.

This fixes a bug I was hitting on sh where $offset (which is used to
calcualte the addends for the __mcount_loc entries) was being set
multiple times and didn't correspond to $ref_func's offset in the object
file. The addends in __mcount_loc were calculated incorrectly, resulting
in ftrace dynamically modifying addresses that weren't mcount call
sites.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1248365775-25196-2-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The value of $offset should be the offset of $ref_func from the
beginning of the object file. Therefore, we should set both variables
together.

This fixes a bug I was hitting on sh where $offset (which is used to
calcualte the addends for the __mcount_loc entries) was being set
multiple times and didn't correspond to $ref_func's offset in the object
file. The addends in __mcount_loc were calculated incorrectly, resulting
in ftrace dynamically modifying addresses that weren't mcount call
sites.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1248365775-25196-2-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Fix the conditional that updates $ref_func</title>
<updated>2009-07-23T16:20:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt@console-pimps.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-23T16:16:14+00:00</published>
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Fix the conditional that checks if we already have a $ref_func and that
the new function is weak. The code as previously checking whether either
condition was false, and we really need to only update $ref_func is both
cconditions are false.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1248365775-25196-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Fix the conditional that checks if we already have a $ref_func and that
the new function is weak. The code as previously checking whether either
condition was false, and we really need to only update $ref_func is both
cconditions are false.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1248365775-25196-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove .globl in the scripts/recordmcount.pl doc</title>
<updated>2009-07-18T10:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>jolsa@redhat.com</name>
<email>jolsa@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-16T19:44:28+00:00</published>
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I was reading throught the recordmcount.pl starting comment,
and spotted a tiny discrepancy.

The second example is about my_func not being global, but the
example code has the ".globl my_func" statement just moved.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1247773468-11594-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
I was reading throught the recordmcount.pl starting comment,
and spotted a tiny discrepancy.

The second example is about my_func not being global, but the
example code has the ".globl my_func" statement just moved.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1247773468-11594-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Add proper dynamic ftrace support.</title>
<updated>2009-06-16T11:56:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-13T08:03:24+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[S390] ftrace: add dynamic ftrace support</title>
<updated>2009-06-12T08:27:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-12T08:26:44+00:00</published>
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Dynamic ftrace support for s390.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Dynamic ftrace support for s390.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: use .sched.text, not .text.sched in recordmcount.pl</title>
<updated>2009-05-05T23:17:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Abbott</name>
<email>tabbott@MIT.EDU</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-01T00:06:11+00:00</published>
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The only references in the kernel to the .text.sched section are in
recordmcount.pl.  Since the code it has is intended to be example code
it should refer to real kernel sections.  So change it to .sched.text
instead.

[ Impact: consistency in comments ]

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1241136371-10768-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The only references in the kernel to the .text.sched section are in
recordmcount.pl.  Since the code it has is intended to be example code
it should refer to real kernel sections.  So change it to .sched.text
instead.

[ Impact: consistency in comments ]

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1241136371-10768-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: test for running of recordmcount.pl twice on an object</title>
<updated>2009-01-18T19:15:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-17T04:18:31+00:00</published>
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Impact: fix failure of dynamic function tracer selftest

In a course of development, a developer does several makes on their
kernel. Sometimes, the make might do something abnormal. In the
case of running the recordmcount.pl script on an object twice,
the script will duplicate all the calls to mcount in the __mcount_loc
section.

On boot up, the dynamic function tracer is careful when it modifies
code, and performs several consistency checks. One is to not modify
the call site if it is not what it expects it to be. If a function
call site is listed twice, the first entry will convert the site
to a nop, and the second will fail because it expected to see a
call to mcount, but instead it sees a nop. Thus, the function tracer
is disabled.

Eric Sesterhenn reported seeing:

[    1.055440] ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00
[    1.055568] ftrace: allocating 29418 entries in 116 pages
[    1.061000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    1.061000] WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:441

 [...]

[    1.060000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da23 ]---
[    1.060000] ftrace failed to modify [&lt;c0118072&gt;] check_corruption+0x3/0x2d
[    1.060000]  actual: 0f:1f:44:00:00

This warning shows that check_corruption+0x3 already had a nop in
its place (0x0f1f440000). After compiling another kernel the problem
went away.

Later Eric Paris notice the same type of issue. Luckily, he saved
the vmlinux file that caused it. In the file we found a bunch of
duplicate mcount call site records, which lead us to the script.

Perhaps this problem only happens to people named Eric.

This patch changes the script to test if the __mcount_loc already
exists in the object file, and if it does, it will print out
an error message and kill the compile.

Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn &lt;snakebyte@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: fix failure of dynamic function tracer selftest

In a course of development, a developer does several makes on their
kernel. Sometimes, the make might do something abnormal. In the
case of running the recordmcount.pl script on an object twice,
the script will duplicate all the calls to mcount in the __mcount_loc
section.

On boot up, the dynamic function tracer is careful when it modifies
code, and performs several consistency checks. One is to not modify
the call site if it is not what it expects it to be. If a function
call site is listed twice, the first entry will convert the site
to a nop, and the second will fail because it expected to see a
call to mcount, but instead it sees a nop. Thus, the function tracer
is disabled.

Eric Sesterhenn reported seeing:

[    1.055440] ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00
[    1.055568] ftrace: allocating 29418 entries in 116 pages
[    1.061000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    1.061000] WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:441

 [...]

[    1.060000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da23 ]---
[    1.060000] ftrace failed to modify [&lt;c0118072&gt;] check_corruption+0x3/0x2d
[    1.060000]  actual: 0f:1f:44:00:00

This warning shows that check_corruption+0x3 already had a nop in
its place (0x0f1f440000). After compiling another kernel the problem
went away.

Later Eric Paris notice the same type of issue. Luckily, he saved
the vmlinux file that caused it. In the file we found a bunch of
duplicate mcount call site records, which lead us to the script.

Perhaps this problem only happens to people named Eric.

This patch changes the script to test if the __mcount_loc already
exists in the object file, and if it does, it will print out
an error message and kill the compile.

Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn &lt;snakebyte@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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