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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ftrace: use .sched.text, not .text.sched in recordmcount.pl.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:06:11PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

Steven - this change is independent of the ongoing
section rework and is a pure documentation fix.

Please apply it with my ack.

Sam

[Kept whole patch for reference]

> ---
> scripts/recordmcount.pl | 6 +++---
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
> index 409596e..0fae7da 100755
> --- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
> +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
> # which will also be the location of that section after final link.
> # e.g.
> #
> -# .section ".text.sched"
> +# .section ".sched.text", "ax"
> # .globl my_func
> # my_func:
> # [...]
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
> # [...]
> #
> # Both relocation offsets for the mcounts in the above example will be
> -# offset from .text.sched. If we make another file called tmp.s with:
> +# offset from .sched.text. If we make another file called tmp.s with:
> #
> # .section __mcount_loc
> # .quad my_func + 0x5
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
> # But this gets hard if my_func is not globl (a static function).
> # In such a case we have:
> #
> -# .section ".text.sched"
> +# .section ".sched.text", "ax"
> # my_func:
> # [...]
> # call mcount (offset: 0x5)
> --
> 1.6.2.1
>


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