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Revision 6b9b6413700e104934734b72a3be622a76923b98 authored by Steven Rostedt (Google) on 22 January 2022, 14:17:10 UTC, committed by Steven Rostedt (Google) on 23 January 2022, 05:10:09 UTC
To speed up the boot process, as mcount_loc needs to be sorted for ftrace
to work properly, sorting it at build time is more efficient than boot up
and can save milliseconds of time. Unfortunately, this change broke s390
as it will modify the mcount_loc location after the sorting takes place
and will put back the unsorted locations. Since the sorting is skipped at
boot up if it is believed that it was sorted at run time, ftrace can crash
as its algorithms are dependent on the list being sorted.

Add a new config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT that is set when
BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT but not if S390 is set. Use this config to determine
if sorting should take place at boot up.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/yt9dee51ctfn.fsf@linux.ibm.com/

Fixes: 72b3942a173c ("scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init")
Reported-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Tip revision: 6b9b6413700e104934734b72a3be622a76923b98 authored by Steven Rostedt (Google) on 22 January 2022, 14:17:10 UTC
ftrace: Fix assuming build time sort works for s390
Tip revision: 6b9b641
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