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Subject[PATCH] ftrace: only warn once on old objcopy and local functions
[
Stephen, can you try to see if this works for you, with the
issue of spamming warnings?

Thanks,

-- Steve
]

Older versions of objcopy do not support the --globalize-symbols
option, which prevent mcount calls in local functions within
their own sections from being reference by the mcount_loc table.

We want to warn the user about this out of date objcopy without spamming
them with warning messages. To do this, we create a .tmp_mcversion and
compare it with the .version to see if we have already warned the
user for that build.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
---
Makefile | 3 +-
scripts/recordmcount.pl | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-tip.git/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-tip.git.orig/Makefile 2008-08-25 14:01:57.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-tip.git/Makefile 2008-08-25 23:17:57.000000000 -0400
@@ -1155,7 +1155,8 @@ endif # CONFIG_MODULES
# Directories & files removed with 'make clean'
CLEAN_DIRS += $(MODVERDIR)
CLEAN_FILES += vmlinux System.map \
- .tmp_kallsyms* .tmp_version .tmp_vmlinux* .tmp_System.map
+ .tmp_kallsyms* .tmp_version .tmp_vmlinux* .tmp_System.map \
+ .tmp_mcversion

# Directories & files removed with 'make mrproper'
MRPROPER_DIRS += include/config include2 usr/include
Index: linux-tip.git/scripts/recordmcount.pl
===================================================================
--- linux-tip.git.orig/scripts/recordmcount.pl 2008-08-25 16:23:29.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-tip.git/scripts/recordmcount.pl 2008-08-25 23:19:52.000000000 -0400
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@
use strict;

my $P = $0;
+my $D = $P;
+$D =~ s@(.*)/.*@$1@;
$P =~ s@.*/@@g;

my $V = '0.1';
@@ -235,6 +237,66 @@ my $ref_func; # reference function to u
my $offset = 0; # offset of ref_func to section beginning

##
+# warn_on_local - check to see if this make already had a warning
+#
+# We want to warn to the user if the objcopy is out of date
+# for referencing local functions, but we do not want to
+# spam the build with errors. We create a file ".tmp_mcversion"
+# and compare it to the .version file to see if we have already
+# warned the user in this compile or not.
+sub warn_on_local
+{
+ if ($local_warn_once) {
+ return;
+ }
+
+ $local_warn_once++;
+
+ # Check to see if we already warned on this build.
+ my $topdir = $D . "/..";
+ open(VER, "$topdir/.version") || return;
+ my $ver_num = -1;
+ while (<VER>) {
+ if (/(\d+)/) {
+ $ver_num = $1;
+ last;
+ }
+ }
+ close (VER);
+
+ my $last_ver = $topdir . "/.tmp_mcversion";
+ if (open(VER, $last_ver)) {
+ my $this_num = -2;
+ # see if the versions match
+ while (<VER>) {
+ if (/(\d+)/) {
+ $this_num = $1;
+ }
+ }
+ close (VER);
+
+ if ($ver_num == $this_num) {
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+
+ # Either the file does not exist, or the versions do
+ # not match. Write the version we read, and warn about
+ # the message.
+
+ open (VER, ">$last_ver") || return;
+ print VER $ver_num . "\n";
+ close (VER);
+
+ print STDERR
+ "$inputfile: WARNING: referencing local function " .
+ "$ref_func for mcount\n" .
+ "\tConsider upgrading objcopy to support the globalize-" .
+ "symbols option.\n" .
+ "\tDisabling local function references.\n";
+}
+
+##
# update_funcs - print out the current mcount callers
#
# Go through the list of offsets to callers and write them to
@@ -262,12 +324,7 @@ sub update_funcs

# only use locals if objcopy supports globalize-symbols
if (!$use_locals) {
- print STDERR
- "$inputfile: WARNING: referencing local function " .
- "$ref_func for mcount\n" .
- "\tConsider upgrading objcopy to support the globalize-" .
- "symbols option.\n"
- if (!$local_warn_once++);
+ warn_on_local();
return;
}
$convert{$ref_func} = 1;



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