Re: [PATCH 0/3] tracing/function-graph-tracer: signal interrupttriggering on output

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 21:15:10 EST



On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> This patchset adds all the features to draw hardirq triggering on output
> for the function graph tracer.
> An example is given on the third patch.
>
> Just one question, on recordmcount.pl:
>
> my %text_sections = (
> ".text" => 1,
> ".sched.text" => 1,
> ".spinlock.text" => 1,
>
> The .sched.text section is included inside .text, it's a subsection, I'm not sure
> it's necessary to add it in text_sections. In doubt I added the new .irqentry.text
>

Matters what objdump -dr shows.

$ objdump -dr kernel/sched.o | grep 'Disassembly'
Disassembly of section .text:
Disassembly of section .cpuinit.text:
Disassembly of section .init.text:
Disassembly of section .sched.text:

Yep, .sched.text is needed. It is not about what gets linked by the
linker. It is about what objdump shows, which is what recordmcount.pl uses
to determine whether or not to record the mcount callers in that section.

-- Steve

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