recordmcount: arm64: Replace the ignored mcount call into nop
authorLi Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:31:04 +0000 (16:31 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:23:39 +0000 (11:23 -0800)
commit8831ded35abdb2ff1eaaa10c3e756a8d45a9d171
tree8f23ae44f62f5b112c03ee6ee25ea2e45ab3614f
parenta33b8ff3d6cb996ae964dc04a99c536f31fc463f
recordmcount: arm64: Replace the ignored mcount call into nop

commit 2ee8a74f2a5da913637f75a19a0da0e7a08c0f86 upstream.

By now, the recordmcount only records the function that in
following sections:
.text/.ref.text/.sched.text/.spinlock.text/.irqentry.text/
.kprobes.text/.text.unlikely

For the function that not in these sections, the call mcount
will be in place and not be replaced when kernel boot up. And
it will bring performance overhead, such as do_mem_abort (in
.exception.text section). This patch make the call mcount to
nop for this case in recordmcount.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446019445-14421-1-git-send-email-huawei.libin@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446193864-24593-4-git-send-email-huawei.libin@huawei.com
Cc: <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
scripts/recordmcount.c