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Naveen N Rao
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Gcc v5.x emits a 3-instruction sequence for -mprofile-kernel: mflr r0 std r0, 16(r1) bl _mcount Gcc v6.x moved to a simpler 2-instruction sequence by removing the 'std' instruction. The store saved the return address in the LR save area in the caller stack frame for stack unwinding. However, with dynamic ftrace, we no longer have a call to _mcount on kernel boot when ftrace is not enabled. When ftrace is enabled, that store is performed within ftrace_caller(). As such, the additional 'std' instruction is redundant. Nop it out on kernel boot. With this change, we now use the same 2-instruction profiling sequence with both -mprofile-kernel, as well as -fpatchable-function-entry on 64-bit powerpc. Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241030070850.1361304-4-hbathini@linux.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 reStructuredText 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.