On Fri 2016-02-05 15:40:27, Balbir Singh wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> wrote: > For big endian builds I saw > > Dump of assembler code for function alloc_pages_current: > 0xc000000000256f00 <+0>: mflr r0 > 0xc000000000256f04 <+4>: std r0,16(r1) > 0xc000000000256f08 <+8>: bl 0xc000000000009e5c <.mcount> > 0xc000000000256f0c <+12>: mflr r0 > > The offset is 8 bytes. Your earlier patch handled this by adding 16, I > suspect it needs revisiting
It seems to be one of the funcitons that do not access any global symbol. gcc does not produce TOC handling in this case when compiled with -mprofile-kernel. I believe that it is a gcc bug. More details can be found in the thread starting at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2134759/focus=2141996 Best Regards, Petr _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
