kbuild/recordmcount: Add RECORDMCOUNT_WARN to warn about mcount callers
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.
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.714956282@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index d5f925a..fdca952 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -244,13 +244,16 @@
ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
ifdef BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
+ifeq ("$(origin RECORDMCOUNT_WARN)", "command line")
+ RECORDMCOUNT_FLAGS = -w
+endif
# Due to recursion, we must skip empty.o.
# The empty.o file is created in the make process in order to determine
# the target endianness and word size. It is made before all other C
# files, including recordmcount.
sub_cmd_record_mcount = \
if [ $(@) != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then \
- $(objtree)/scripts/recordmcount "$(@)"; \
+ $(objtree)/scripts/recordmcount $(RECORDMCOUNT_FLAGS) "$(@)"; \
fi;
else
sub_cmd_record_mcount = set -e ; perl $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl "$(ARCH)" \