[PATCH] recordmcount.pl: Add ppc64le to list of supported architectures

[Kamalesh Babulal]

On Wednesday 14 June 2017 04:22 AM, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Kamalesh Babulal <
> kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Module make on ppc64le, fails with:
>>
>> make -C /root/kernel/linux M=/root/.kpatch/tmp/patch
>> kpatch-data-read-mostly.ko
>> make[1]: Entering directory '/root/kernel/linux'
>>   CC [M]  /root/.kpatch/tmp/patch/patch-hook.o
>> Arch ppc64le is not supported with CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD at
>> ./scripts/recordmcount.pl line 379.
>>
>> Fix it by adding 'ppc64le' to list of supported architectures
>> in recordmcount.pl script.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  scripts/recordmcount.pl | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
>> index 1633c3e..683b8b5 100755
>> --- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
>> +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
>> @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") {
>>      $ld .= " -m shlelf_linux";
>>      $objcopy .= " -O elf32-sh-linux";
>>
>> -} elsif ($arch eq "powerpc") {
>> +} elsif ($arch eq "powerpc" || $arch eq "ppc64le") {
>>
>
> I don't get this, the arch should always be powerpc. Where did you get the
> ppc64le
> from? Am I missing anything?
>
> Balbir Singh.
>

Thanks for the review. True, the top level Makefile derives the ARCH 
from SUBARCH where ppc64le is replaced by powerpc. Out of tree module 
build fails, where the ARCH gets overruled to underlying arch type.

-- 
cheers,
Kamalesh.