[PATCH v6 0/9] ftrace with regs + live patching for ppc64 LE (ABI v2)

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 13:41 +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:19:04 +0100
> Torsten Duwe <duwe at lst.de> wrote:
>
> > Thanks! Make sure you use a compiler that can disable -mprofile-kernel with "notrace".
> 
> gcc-6? I have gcc-5.2.1

That should work.

But that's a good point.

We need to have some Makefile logic to only enable -mprofile-kernel when it's
known to work, ie. for versions where the notrace fix is in.

Looking at GCC history it looks like the fix is in 4.9.0 and anything later.

But a version check doesn't work with patched distro/vendor toolchains. So we
probably need some sort of runtime check.

cheers