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Merge tag 'trace-sorttable-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing / sorttable updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Implement arm64 build time sorting of the mcount location table
When gcc is used to build arm64, the mcount_loc section is all zeros
in the vmlinux elf file. The addresses are stored in the Elf_Rela
location.
To sort at build time, an array is allocated and the addresses are
added to it via the content of the mcount_loc section as well as he
Elf_Rela data. After sorting, the information is put back into the
Elf_Rela which now has the section sorted.
- Make sorting of mcount location table for arm64 work with clang as
well
When clang is used, the mcount_loc section contains the addresses,
unlike the gcc build. An array is still created and the sorting works
for both methods.
- Remove weak functions from the mcount_loc section
Have the sorttable code pass in the data of functions defined via
'nm -S' which shows the functions as well as their sizes. Using this
information the sorttable code can determine if a function in the
mcount_loc section was weak and overridden. If the function is not
found, it is set to be zero. On boot, when the mcount_loc section is
read and the ftrace table is created, if the address in the
mcount_loc is not in the kernel core text then it is removed and not
added to the ftrace_filter_functions (the functions that can be
attached by ftrace callbacks).
- Update and fix the reporting of how much data is used for ftrace
functions
On boot, a report of how many pages were used by the ftrace table as
well as how they were grouped (the table holds a list of sections
that are groups of pages that were able to be allocated). The
removing of the weak functions required the accounting to be updated.
* tag 'trace-sorttable-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
scripts/sorttable: Allow matches to functions before function entry
scripts/sorttable: Use normal sort if theres no relocs in the mcount section
ftrace: Check against is_kernel_text() instead of kaslr_offset()
ftrace: Test mcount_loc addr before calling ftrace_call_addr()
ftrace: Have ftrace pages output reflect freed pages
ftrace: Update the mcount_loc check of skipped entries
scripts/sorttable: Zero out weak functions in mcount_loc table
scripts/sorttable: Always use an array for the mcount_loc sorting
scripts/sorttable: Have mcount rela sort use direct values
arm64: scripts/sorttable: Implement sorting mcount_loc at boot for arm64
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