linux-next: tracing/powerpc tree build failure

Steven Rostedt srostedt at redhat.com
Fri Mar 27 23:48:51 EST 2009


On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 23:08 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this:
> 
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c: In function 'prepare_ftrace_return':
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c:612: warning: passing argument 3 of 'ftrace_push_return_trace' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c:612: error: too many arguments to function 'ftrace_push_return_trace'
> 
> Caused by commit 5d1a03dc541dc6672e60e57249ed22f40654ca47
> ("function-graph: moved the timestamp from arch to generic code") from
> the tracing tree which (removed an argument from
> ftrace_push_return_trace()) interacting with commit
> 6794c78243bfda020ab184d6d578944f8e90d26c ("powerpc64: port of the
> function graph tracer") from the powerpc tree.
> 
> I added the following patch and can carry it as necessary.

Thanks Stephen!!!

I knew this was going to break, but I needed to wait till powerpc merged
with tip before I could make the change.

> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
> 
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:47:58 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] tracing: fixup for ftrace_push_return_trace API change
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c |    6 +-----
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
> index 5b5d16b..5455943 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
> @@ -557,7 +557,6 @@ extern void mod_return_to_handler(void);
>  void prepare_ftrace_return(unsigned long *parent, unsigned long self_addr)
>  {
>  	unsigned long old;
> -	unsigned long long calltime;
>  	int faulted;
>  	struct ftrace_graph_ent trace;
>  	unsigned long return_hooker = (unsigned long)&return_to_handler;
> @@ -606,10 +605,7 @@ void prepare_ftrace_return(unsigned long *parent, unsigned long self_addr)
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	calltime = cpu_clock(raw_smp_processor_id());
> -
> -	if (ftrace_push_return_trace(old, calltime,
> -				self_addr, &trace.depth) == -EBUSY) {
> +	if (ftrace_push_return_trace(old, self_addr, &trace.depth) == -EBUSY) {

This is exactly what I would have done.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt at redhat.com>

-- Steve

>  		*parent = old;
>  		return;
>  	}




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