Re: [PATCH 4/4] arm64: vdso: remove pointless gcov option

2017-10-17 Thread Mark Rutland
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 02:24:40PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > The arm64 VDSO Makefile explicitly disables gcov; a practice we seem to > have inherited from other VDSO Makefiles. > > The arm64 VDSO is written entirely in assembly, so this is not > necessary. Further, if the VDSO were written in C

[PATCH 4/4] arm64: vdso: remove pointless gcov option

2017-10-16 Thread Mark Rutland
The arm64 VDSO Makefile explicitly disables gcov; a practice we seem to have inherited from other VDSO Makefiles. The arm64 VDSO is written entirely in assembly, so this is not necessary. Further, if the VDSO were written in C it would be necessary to disable all other instrumentation, and this al