Yeah, I think it's time to opt in, instead of opting out.
Something like this:
-- Steve
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index c2724d986fa0..5256ebe57451 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ config ARM
select HAVE_EBPF_JIT if !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32
select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
+ select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK if !XIP_KERNEL
select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if MMU
select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index c4207cf9bb17..7996548b2b27 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ config ARM64
select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
select HAVE_EBPF_JIT
select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
+ select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
select HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 7399327d1eff..46080dea5dba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_OFFSTACK if HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
select HAVE_OBJTOOL_MCOUNT if STACK_VALIDATION
+ select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 752ed89a293b..7e5b92090faa 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -70,10 +70,16 @@ config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
help
C version of recordmcount available?
+config HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
+ bool
+ help
+ An architecture selects this if it sorts the mcount_loc section
+ at build time.
+
config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
bool
default y
- depends on BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT && !S390
+ depends on HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
help
Sort the mcount_loc section at build time.
LGTM. This will no longer destroy ftrace on other architectures.
Those arches that we are not sure about can test and enable this
function by themselves.
Best regards
--yinan
