From: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Thanks to Andi Kleen, gcc 4.6.0 now supports -mfentry for x86
(and hopefully soon for other archs). What this does is to have
the function profiler start at the beginning of the function
instead of after the stack is set up. As plain -pg (mcount) is
called after the stack is set up, and in some cases can have issues
with the function graph tracer. It also requires frame pointers to
be enabled.
The -mfentry now calls __fentry__ at the beginning of the function.
This allows for compiling without frame pointers and even has the
ability to access parameters if needed.
If the architecture and the compiler both support -mfentry then
use that instead.
Cc: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
---
Makefile | 6 +++++-
kernel/trace/Kconfig | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index aa8e315..eeb634f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -609,7 +609,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly)
endif
ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pg
+ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FENTRY
+CC_USING_FENTRY := $(call cc-option, -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY)
+endif
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pg $(CC_USING_FENTRY)
+KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CC_USING_FENTRY)
ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT := y
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 8c4c070..9301a0e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
help
See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
+config HAVE_FENTRY
+ bool
+ help
+ Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
+
config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
bool
help
--
1.7.10.4
Commit-ID: a2546fae01124fb8063747439300fcf39bac033a
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a2546fae01124fb8063747439300fcf39bac033a
Author: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:15:59 -0500
Committer: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:25:02 -0400
ftrace: Add -mfentry to Makefile on function tracer
Thanks to Andi Kleen, gcc 4.6.0 now supports -mfentry for x86
(and hopefully soon for other archs). What this does is to have
the function profiler start at the beginning of the function
instead of after the stack is set up. As plain -pg (mcount) is
called after the stack is set up, and in some cases can have issues
with the function graph tracer. It also requires frame pointers to
be enabled.
The -mfentry now calls __fentry__ at the beginning of the function.
This allows for compiling without frame pointers and even has the
ability to access parameters if needed.
If the architecture and the compiler both support -mfentry then
use that instead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
---
Makefile | 6 +++++-
kernel/trace/Kconfig | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ddf5be9..e7ca93f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -609,7 +609,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly)
endif
ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pg
+ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FENTRY
+CC_USING_FENTRY := $(call cc-option, -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY)
+endif
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pg $(CC_USING_FENTRY)
+KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CC_USING_FENTRY)
ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT := y
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 8c4c070..9301a0e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ config HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
help
See Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt
+config HAVE_FENTRY
+ bool
+ help
+ Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
+
config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
bool
help