On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 11:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

quoted text
> the better fix would be to add likely_prof.o to this list of exceptions 
> in lib/Makefile:
> 
>  ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
>  # Do not profile string.o, since it may be used in early boot or vdso
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg
>  # Also do not profile any debug utilities
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg
>  CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg
>  endif
> 
> instead of adding notrace to the source.
> 
> 	Ingo

Here's the fix mentioned above.

--

Remove tracing from likely profiling since it could cause recursion if
ftrace uses likely/unlikely macro's internally.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>

---
 lib/Makefile |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.25/lib/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25.orig/lib/Makefile
+++ linux-2.6.25/lib/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg
+# likely profiling can cause recursion in ftrace, so don't trace it.
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_likely_prof.o = -pg
 endif
 
 lib-$(CONFIG_MMU) += ioremap.o


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