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Naveen N. Rao
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For -mprofile-kernel, we need special handling when generating stubs for ftrace calls such as _mcount(). To faciliate this, we check if a R_PPC64_REL24 relocation is for a symbol named "_mcount()" along with also checking the instruction sequence. The latter is not really required since "_mcount()" is an exported symbol and kernel modules cannot use it. As such, drop the additional checking and simplify the code. This helps unify stub creation for ftrace stubs with -mprofile-kernel and aids in code reuse. Also rename is_mprofile_mcount_callsite() to is_mprofile_ftrace_call() to reflect the checking being done. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7d9c316adfa1fb787ad268bb4691e7e4059ff2d5.1587488954.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.