fsl-imx51: Turn on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER option will encounter a linking error
 

Dear Bryan,

Done.

And it seems that fsl-imx51 branch doesn't have too much features of
the ftrace, such as FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER, DYNAMIC_FTRACE, MMIOTRACE,
... ...

So, we might need to enable the following options for the basic ftrace functions
CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER=y
CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST=y
CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST=y

The following changes since commit 6cd3b3af35f35d128d26eb1ff0064f209a452cf7:
Uwe Kleine-König (1):
[ARM] support tracing when using newer compilers

are available in the git repository at:

git://kernel.ubuntu.com/acelan/ubuntu-lucid lp574158

Uwe Kleine-König (1):
[ARM] support tracing when using newer compilers

arch/arm/include/asm/ftrace.h | 1 +
arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c | 1 +
arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

2010/5/4 Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>:
>
>
> On 05/03/2010 03:47 PM, AceLan Kao wrote:
>>
>> BugLink:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-fsl-imx51/+bug/574158
>>
>> __gnu_mcount_nc() function is implemented in the commit
>> a8a48cd5add67494d96c13718cab36c465863d07 in the Lucid kernel tree,
>> we have to cherry pick this commit to make sure the ftrace could be
>> compiled and works in the fsl-mx51 branch
>>
>> I cherry pick this commit and test it on my H/W, the ftrace works,
>> please consider to git pull this following patches from:
>> * * * *git://kernel.ubuntu.com/acelan/ubuntu-lucid lp574158
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
> Great, this patch will let us to play with ftrace in fsl-imx51.
> And just one comment, could you please add the BugLink info and cherry-pick
> comments into this commit? just like this,
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-lucid.git;a=commit;h=29c60ccc1a408371885d79d8f8c08 1fbcb9b10be
>
> And one more question, need we enable the CONFIG_FTRACE_* in fsl-imx51
> config?
>
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fsl-imx51: Turn on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER option will encounter a linking error
 

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com> wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 12:02 PM, AceLan Kao wrote:
>> CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER=y
>
> this one is not enabled in our x86 master branch config.

A patch to turn this on for the x86 kernels was just applied and
should go out in the next SRU release. I suggest enabling it for ARM
as well. It only affects things when you enable it at runtime.

>> CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST=y
>> CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST=y
>
> These 2 testing configs are not enabled in master either, so it might not be
> turned on as default in fsl-imx51.

I don't think these are necessary either.

> Maybe we need to go through those FTRACE configs in our UDS-M.

I agree, although I believe the x86 configuration is pretty good now.
If it's mirrored for ARM then we're probably set.

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fsl-imx51: Turn on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER option will encounter a linking error
 

Dear all,

Can anyone help to review this cherry-pick, it was pending for a month?
We need this cherry-pick to enable FTRACE option, so that we could do
some kernel debugging.

Best regards,
AceLan Kao.

2010/5/4 Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com> wrote:
>> On 05/04/2010 12:02 PM, AceLan Kao wrote:
>>> CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER=y
>>
>> this one is not enabled in our x86 master branch config.
>
> A patch to turn this on for the x86 kernels was just applied and
> should go out in the next SRU release. I suggest enabling it for ARM
> as well. It only affects things when you enable it at runtime.
>
>>> CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST=y
>>> CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST=y
>>
>> These 2 testing configs are not enabled in master either, so it might not be
>> turned on as default in fsl-imx51.
>
> I don't think these are necessary either.
>
>> Maybe we need to go through those FTRACE configs in our UDS-M.
>
> I agree, although I believe the x86 configuration is pretty good now.
> If it's mirrored for ARM then we're probably set.
>
> -- Chase
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fsl-imx51: Turn on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER option will encounter a linking error
 

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:57 PM, AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@canonical.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Can anyone help to review this cherry-pick, it was pending for a month?
> We need this cherry-pick to enable FTRACE option, so that we could do
> some kernel debugging.
>

linux-2.6 $> git blog arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S

f8b7256 Unify sys_mmap*
4fb2847 ARM: 5727/1: Pass IFSR register to do_PrefetchAbort()
6176d39 ARM: 5734/1: arm: fix compilation of entry-common.S for older CPUs
2ca7d67 Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
87d721a Merge branch 'master' into devel
ddd559b Merge branch 'devel-stable' into devel
d0420c8 KEYS: Extend TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME to (almost) all architectures [try #6]
9b2616c Merge branch 'for-rmk-2.6.32' of
git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux-2.6 into devel-stable
3698426 ARM: 5677/1: ARM support for
TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK/pselect6/ppoll/epoll_pwait
181f817 [ARM] support tracing when using newer compilers

The patch is merged in upstream as commit 181f817, and commit 6176d39
fixed one of the build issue introduced within this commit. So I guess you
need to cherry-pick both of them. When that's done,

Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@canonical.com>

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