Peter Zijlstra 7dcfcd46b9 FROMLIST: objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc ...

Add the --mcount option for generating __mcount_loc sections
needed for dynamic ftrace. Using this pass requires the kernel to
be compiled with -mfentry and CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT to be defined
in Makefile.

Bug: 145210207
Change-Id: I34eeeb00c184bf265391549094fc15525536886b
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200625200235.GQ4781@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[Sami: rebased, dropped config changes, fixed to actually use --mcount,
       and wrote a commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

2020-12-16 08:56:35 -08:00

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