[PATCH 2/2] recordmcount: Handle sections with no non-weak symbols

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Fri Apr 29 00:06:02 AEST 2022


On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:15:22 +0530
"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Indeed, plain old -pg will be a problem. I'm not sure there is a generic 
> way to address this. I suppose architectures will have to validate the 
> mcount locations, something like this?

Perhaps another solution is to make the mcount locations after the linking
is done. The main downside to that is that it takes time to go over the
entire vmlinux, and will slow down a compile that only modified a couple of
files.

-- Steve


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