[PATCH v3 3/4] powerpc/kbuild: Use flags variables rather than overriding LD/CC/AS

[Michael Ellerman]

Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> writes:
> On Tue, 15 May 2018 15:24:21 +1000
> Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
>> > Have you tried building all current archs with function tracing enabled
>> > to make sure this doesn't break any of them? I can do it if you want.  
>> 
>> We shouldn't need to should we? This is only touching powerpc specific
>> code (if I understand perl that is).
>> 
>> eg:
>> 
>> $ git diff -U9 scripts/recordmcount.pl
>
> Thanks for the added context!
>
> Yeah, I don't look at that code much anymore since I mainly deal with
> recordmcount.c now-a-days. I wonder if someone should port ppc to that.

Ah right. I didn't realise they were mutually exclusive. I'll add a TODO
for us to port over to the C version.

> It is also no my todo list to merge that with objtool.
>
> Anyway,
>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt at goodmis.org>

Thanks.

cheers