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Date:   Mon, 6 Aug 2018 11:07:40 -0700
From:   Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To:     Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] trace: avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for
 every Makefile
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 03:17:44PM +0200, Vasily Gorbik wrote:
> Currently if CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is enabled -mrecord-mcount
> compiler flag support is tested for every Makefile.

Good catch.  Does it make a measurable compile time difference?

> 
> Top 4 cc-option usages:
>     511 -mrecord-mcount
>      11  -fno-stack-protector
>       9 -Wno-override-init
>       2 -fsched-pressure
> 
> To address that move cc-option from scripts/Makefile.build to top Makefile
> and export CC_USING_RECORD_MCOUNT to be used in original place.
> 
> While doing that also add -mrecord-mcount to CC_FLAGS_FTRACE (if gcc
> actually supports it).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

-Andi