Thanks to Andi Kleen, gcc 4.6.0 now supports -mfentry for x86
(and hopefully soon for other archs). What this does is to have
the function profiler start at the beginning of the function
instead of after the stack is set up. As plain -pg (mcount) is
called after the stack is set up, and in some cases can have issues
with the function graph tracer. It also requires frame pointers to
be enabled.

The -mfentry now calls __fentry__ at the beginning of the function.
This allows for compiling without frame pointers and even has the
ability to access parameters if needed.

If the architecture and the compiler both support -mfentry then
use that instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120807194059.392617243@goodmis.org



Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

... at least in the top-level Makefile and scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.
There are some more instances of the 'echo <error>; exit 1' pattern in
some arch Makefiles and kconfig.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

When the READABLE_ASM cc-option tests were added they were done so prior
to the arch Makefile include, resulting in cc-option being run on the
host cc instead of the factoring in the cross prefix set up by the
architecture.

This bumps the include back up so that cc-option actually runs on the
compiler that we're building with.

Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A new option is added to the relocs tool called '--realmode'.
This option causes the generation of 16-bit segment relocations
and 32-bit linear relocations for the real-mode code. When
the real-mode code is moved to the low-memory during kernel
initialization, these relocation entries can be used to
relocate the code properly.

In the assembly code 16-bit segment relocations must be relative
to the 'real_mode_seg' absolute symbol. Linear relocations must be
relative to a symbol prefixed with 'pa_'.

16-bit segment relocation is used to load cs:ip in 16-bit code.
Linear relocations are used in the 32-bit code for relocatable
data references. They are declared in the linker script of the
real-mode code.

The relocs tool is moved to arch/x86/tools/relocs.c, and added new
target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building
an architecture.  be compiled before building the arch/x86 tree.

[ hpa: accelerating this because it detects invalid absolute
  relocations, a serious bug in binutils 2.22.52.0.x which currently
  produces bad kernels. ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-2-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com


Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

.. and this should hopefully be the last -rc before final 3.4 release.

Moved relocs tool from scripts/ to arch/x86/tools because
it is architecture specific script. Added new target archscripts
that can be used to build scripts needed building an architecture.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-22-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com


Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Move the final link of vmlinux to a script to improve
readability and maintainability of the code.

The Makefile fragments used to link vmlinux has over the
years seen far too many changes and the logic had become
hard to follow.

As the process by nature is serialized there was
nothing gained including this in the Makefile.

"um" has special link requirments - and the
only way to handle this was to hard-code the linking
of "um" in the script.
This was better than trying to modularize it only for the
benefit of "um" anyway.

The shell script has been improved after input from:
Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

sparc32 uses an additional final link to support btfix.
Introduce a new set of exported variables in the top-level Makefile
to make the extra linking step simpler.

sparc32 has hardcoded knowledge of kallsyms support. This fix
include support for EXTRA_KALLSYM_PASS=1.
The ugly part is that it is hardcoded in the arch/sparc/boot
Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

ARCH is never set to m68knomm.
make ARCH=m68knomm is not supported anymore.

Signed-off-by: Edward Shao <laface.tw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Define a config variable BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT to control build time
sorting of the kernel's exception table.

Patch Makefile to do the sorting when BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT is
selected.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334872799-14589-4-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Now you can do

$ make tools/<toolname>

from the toplevel kernel directory and have the respective tool built.

If you want to build and install it, do

$ make tools/<toolname>_install

$ make tools/<toolname>_clean

should clean the respective tool directories.

If you want to clean all in tools, simply do

$ make tools/clean

Also, if you want to get what the possible targets are, simply calling

$ make tools/

should give you the short help.

$ make tools/install

installs all tools, of course. Doh.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334162178-17152-6-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org


Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Break a few lines that go way over the usual 80 column limit that we prefer.
Also adjust the placement of a few line continuations.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Add a config option to disable various gcc compiler optimizations that
make assembler listings much harder to read. This is everything that reorders
code significantly or creates partial functions.

This is mainly to keep kernel hackers sane.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332960678-11879-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org


Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>