Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init

[Yinan Liu]

> > After applying this, I get a failure on the kprobe self tests at boot up:
> >
> >   Testing ftrace filter: OK
> >   trace_kprobe: Testing kprobe tracing:
> >   trace_kprobe: Could not probe notrace function kprobe_trace_selftest_target
> >   ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >   WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:1973 kprobe_trace_self_tests_init+0x5c/0x497
> >   Modules linked in:
>
> And I added the below patch, and it shows that the section is not properly
> sorted. Something went wrong with your sorting.
>
> I plan on keeping this check, at least as a compile option, to make sure
> that the output is sorted, otherwise things will silently fail if they are
> not.
>
> This patch produced:
>
> [    1.315419] ftrace: allocating 43510 entries in 170 pages
> [    1.320638] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    1.325227] [3] x86_pnpbios_disabled+0x0/0x1c at 8a51c707 is not sorted with __traceiter_initcall_level+0x0/0x60 at 87000660
>
> I'm dropping the patches until this is "sorted out" :-)
>
> -- Steve
Hi, steven

Sorry, I just saw the email yesterday. Recently my computer is not 
around. I'm not sure what went wrong at the moment. I will fix it.



Best regards!
-- Yinan Liu