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There's two methods of enabling function tracing in Linux on x86. One is with just "gcc -pg" and the other is "gcc -pg -mfentry". The former will use calls to a special function "mcount" after the frame is set up in all C functions. The latter will add calls to a special function called "fentry" as the very first instruction of all C functions. At compile time, there is a check to see if gcc supports, -mfentry, and if it does, it will use that, because it is more versatile and less error prone for function tracing. Starting with v4.19, the minimum gcc supported to build the Linux kernel, was raised to version 4.6. That also happens to be the first gcc version to support -mfentry. Since on x86, using gcc versions from 4.6 and beyond will unconditionally enable the -mfentry, it will no longer use mcount as the method for inserting calls into the C functions of the kernel. This means that there is no point in continuing to maintain mcount in x86. Remove support for using mcount. This makes the code less complex, and will also allow it to be simplified in the future. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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1.1 KiB
C
38 lines
1.1 KiB
C
/*
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* livepatch.h - x86-specific Kernel Live Patching Core
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2014 Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
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* Copyright (C) 2014 SUSE
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
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* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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*
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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* GNU General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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*/
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#ifndef _ASM_X86_LIVEPATCH_H
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#define _ASM_X86_LIVEPATCH_H
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#include <asm/setup.h>
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#include <linux/ftrace.h>
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static inline int klp_check_compiler_support(void)
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{
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return 0;
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}
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static inline void klp_arch_set_pc(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long ip)
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{
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regs->ip = ip;
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}
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#endif /* _ASM_X86_LIVEPATCH_H */
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