Re: [RFC][PATCH 07/11] kbuild/recordmcount: Add RECORDMCOUNT_WARNto warn about mcount callers

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Apr 20 2011 - 22:40:32 EST


On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 22:28 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> plain text document attachment
> (0007-kbuild-recordmcount-Add-RECORDMCOUNT_WARN-to-warn-ab.patch)
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When mcount is called in a section that ftrace will not modify it into
> a nop, we want to warn about this. But not warn about this always. Now
> if the user builds the kernel with the option RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 then
> the build will warn about mcount callers that are ignored and will just
> waste execution time.
>
> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Michal,

Can I get an Acked-by from you for this patch. Or comments if it doesn't
suit you?

Thanks,

-- Stvee


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