Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] trace: Make FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT configurable

[Nick Desaulniers]

+ Sami, Kees

Do you guys remember why we don't support
FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT with LTO?
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/patch/20201013003203.4168817-12-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 5:43 PM Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For whatever reason LLVM does not allow LTO (Link Time Optimization) if
> FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT is enabled.
>
> This allows disabling just this option instead of disabling all FTRACE
> options.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Or disabling FTRACE is the right thing to do if HAS_LTO_CLANG=y?
>
> Came from arch/Kconfig:
>
> config HAS_LTO_CLANG
>         def_bool y
>         depends on CC_IS_CLANG && LD_IS_LLD && AS_IS_LLVM
>         depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm)
>         depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm)
>         depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
>         depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT  <======
>         depends on !KASAN || KASAN_HW_TAGS
>         depends on !GCOV_KERNEL
>
>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/Kconfig | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> index a5eb5e7fd624..87d82d2b0b0b 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> @@ -704,7 +704,8 @@ config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
>         depends on FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
>
>  config FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT
> -       def_bool y
> +       bool "Enable FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_RECORDMCOUNT"
> +       default y
>         depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_PATCHABLE_FUNCTION_ENTRY
>         depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_CC
>         depends on !FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_OBJTOOL
> --
> 2.30.2
>


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers