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ftrace: Remove selecting FRAME_POINTER with FUNCTION_TRACER

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The function tracer will enable the -pg option with gcc, which requires
that frame pointers. When FRAME_POINTER is defined in the kernel config
it adds the gcc option -fno-omit-frame-pointer which causes some problems
on some architectures. For those architectures, the FRAME_POINTER select
was not set.

When FUNCTION_TRACER was selected on these architectures that can not have
-fno-omit-frame-pointer, the -pg option is still set. But when
FRAME_POINTER is not selected, the kernel config would add the gcc option
-fomit-frame-pointer. Adding this option is incompatible with -pg
even on archs that do not need frame pointers with -pg.

The answer to this was to just not add either -fno-omit-frame-pointer
or -fomit-frame-pointer on these archs that want function tracing
but do not set FRAME_POINTER.

As it turns out, for archs that require frame pointers for function
tracing, the same can be used. If gcc requires frame pointers with
-pg, it will simply add it. The best thing to do is not select FRAME_POINTER
when function tracing is selected, and let gcc add it if needed.

Only add the -fno-omit-frame-pointer when something else selects
FRAME_POINTER, but do not add -fomit-frame-pointer if function tracing
is selected.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt 2012-04-30 09:17:03 -04:00 committed by Steven Rostedt
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@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ if FTRACE
config FUNCTION_TRACER
bool "Kernel Function Tracer"
depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
select FRAME_POINTER if !ARM_UNWIND && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE
select KALLSYMS
select GENERIC_TRACER
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER