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Commit e2b0a161 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.4-rc4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull ftrace/recordmcount fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Russell King was reporting lots of warnings when he compiled his
  kernel with ftrace enabled.  With some investigation it was discovered
  that it was his compile setup.  He was using ccache with hard links,
  which allowed recordmcount to process the same .o twice.  When this
  happens, recordmcount will detect that it was already done and give a
  warning about it.

  Russell fixed this by having recordmcount detect that the object file
  has more than one hard link, and if it does, it unlinks the object
  file after it maps it and processes then.  This appears to fix the
  issue.

  As you did not like the fact that recordmcount modified the file in
  place and thought that it should do the modifications in memory and
  then write it out to disk and move it over the old file to prevent
  other more subtle issues like the one above, a second patch is added
  on top of Russell's to do just that.  Luckily the original code had
  write and lseek wrappers that I was able to modify to not do inplace
  writes, but simply keep track of the changes made in memory.  When a
  write is made, a "update" flag is set, and at the end of processing,
  if the update is set, then it writes the file with changes out to a
  new file, and then renames it over the original one.

  The file descriptor is still passed to the write and lseek wrappers
  because removing that would cause the change to be more intrusive.
  That can be removed in a follow up cleanup patch that can wait till
  the next merge window"

* tag 'trace-v4.4-rc4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ftrace/scripts: Have recordmcount copy the object file
  scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks
parents 12261f4e a50bd439
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