FROMLIST: objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc
Add the --mcount option for generating __mcount_loc sections
needed for dynamic ftrace. Using this pass requires the kernel to
be compiled with -mfentry and CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT to be defined
in Makefile.
Bug: 145210207
Change-Id: I34eeeb00c184bf265391549094fc15525536886b
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200625200235.GQ4781@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[Sami: rebased, dropped config changes, fixed to actually use --mcount,
and wrote a commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
diff --git a/tools/objtool/objtool.c b/tools/objtool/objtool.c
index 9df0cd8..c1819a6 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/objtool.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/objtool.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ struct objtool_file *objtool_open_read(const char *_objname)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&file.insn_list);
hash_init(file.insn_hash);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&file.static_call_list);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&file.mcount_loc_list);
file.c_file = !vmlinux && find_section_by_name(file.elf, ".comment");
file.ignore_unreachables = no_unreachable;
file.hints = false;