Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/2] kbuild: dead code elimination: ftrace fixes
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
From: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:15:13 +0100
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Hi Nick,

On 22.12.2016 10:08, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:51:45 +0100
> Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com> wrote:
>
>> Enabling dead code & data elimination currently breaks ftrace operation,
>> as the __mcount_loc section is removed (as it is not referenced directly
>> anywhere in the code).
>> Moreover, there are a lot of entries missing in the __mcount_loc section
>> as the recordmcount tool doesn't currently properly handle the section
>> names as created by the use of -ffunction-sections.
>
> Thanks for keeping on top of these. I didn't have any objections, so
> if you would send them to Michal Marek for merge and cc linux-kbuild
> that would be appreciated.

I had previously sent them to Michal and cc:kbuild, but Michal has not 
picked them up yet hence I've sent them to lkml now.
It's not clear to me if Michal is the person responsible for 
recordmcount changes, but I initially posted this to kbuild as this is 
where all of your dead code & data elimination patches were going through.

Michal - do you plan to pick up these changes or would they need to be 
acked/merged by somebody else?

thanks,
Marcin