The minimum level of gcc supported for building the kernel is v5.1.
v5.x releases of gcc emitted a three instruction sequence for
-mprofile-kernel:
mflr r0
std r0, 16(r1)
bl _mcount
It is only with the v6.x releases that gcc started emitting the two
instruction sequence for -mprofile-kernel, omitting the second store
instruction.
With the older three instruction sequence, the actual ftrace location
can be the 5th instruction into a function. Update the allowed offset
for ftrace location from 12 to 16 to accommodate the same.
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7af82ff90a2b06 ("powerpc/ftrace: Ignore weak functions")
Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao <nav...@kernel.org>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/ftrace.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ftrace.h
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ftrace.h
index 91c049d51d0e10..2edc6269b1a357 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ftrace.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ftrace.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
/* Ignore unused weak functions which will have larger offsets */
#ifdef CONFIG_MPROFILE_KERNEL
-#define FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET 12
+#define FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET 16
#elif defined(CONFIG_PPC32)
#define FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET 8
#endif
base-commit: bd517a8442b6c6646a136421cd4c1b95bf4ce32b
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2.40.1
