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Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL][v2.6.32] tracing/x86: Add check to detect GCC messing with mcount prologue
- From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor dot com>
- To: rostedt at goodmis dot org
- Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix dot de>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte dot hu>, LKML <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation dot org>, Heiko Carstens <heiko dot carstens at de dot ibm dot com>, feng dot tang at intel dot com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead dot org>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail dot com>, David Daney <ddaney at caviumnetworks dot com>, Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation dot org>, Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:05:33 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL][v2.6.32] tracing/x86: Add check to detect GCC messing with mcount prologue
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On 11/24/2009 09:30 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> For other archs, Linus showed some examples:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/19/349
>
Yes; the key here is that the ABI-defined entry state is readily
mappable onto the state on entry to the __fentry__ function.
-hpa
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