Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:21:20 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: strip whitespace in cmd_record_mcount findstring |
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:04:38 -0400 Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> wrote:
> CC_FLAGS_FTRACE may contain trailing whitespace that interferes with > findstring. > > For example, commit 6977f95e63b9 ("powerpc: avoid -mno-sched-epilog on > GCC 4.9 and newer") introduced a change such that on my ppc64le box, > CC_FLAGS_FTRACE="-pg -mprofile-kernel ". (Note the trailing space.) > When cmd_record_mcount is now invoked, findstring fails as the ftrace > flags were found at very end of _c_flags, without the trailing space. > > _c_flags=" ... -pg -mprofile-kernel" > CC_FLAGS_FTRACE="-pg -mprofile-kernel " > ^ > findstring is looking for this extra space
Wow, what a bug.
> > Remove the redundant whitespaces from CC_FLAGS_FTRACE in > cmd_record_mcount to avoid this problem. > > Fixes: 6977f95e63b9 ("powerpc: avoid -mno-sched-epilog on GCC 4.9 and newer"). > Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-- Steve
> --- > > Standard disclaimer: I'm not a kbuild expert, but this works around the > problem I reported where ftrace and livepatch self-tests were failing as > specified object files were not run through the recordmcount.pl script: > > ppc64le: ftrace self-tests and $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) broken? > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2019-March/187298.html > > scripts/Makefile.build | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build > index 2554a15ecf2b..74d402b5aa3c 100644 > --- a/scripts/Makefile.build > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build > @@ -199,10 +199,10 @@ sub_cmd_record_mcount = perl $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl "$(ARCH)" \ > "$(if $(part-of-module),1,0)" "$(@)"; > recordmcount_source := $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl > endif # BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT > -cmd_record_mcount = \ > - if [ "$(findstring $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),$(_c_flags))" = \ > - "$(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)" ]; then \ > - $(sub_cmd_record_mcount) \ > +cmd_record_mcount = \ > + if [ "$(findstring $(strip $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)),$(_c_flags))" = \ > + "$(strip $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE))" ]; then \ > + $(sub_cmd_record_mcount) \ > fi > endif # CC_USING_RECORD_MCOUNT > endif # CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
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