Enable gcov support for ARM based on original patches by David Singleton and George G. Davis
Riku - updated to patch to current mainline kernel. The patch has been submitted in 2010, 2012 - for symmetry, now in 2014 too.
https://lwn.net/Articles/390419/ http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=133823081813044
v2: remove arch/arm/kernel from gcov disabled files
From: Vincent Sanders vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk Cc: Andrey Ryabinin a.ryabinin@samsung.com Cc: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Cc: Russell King linux@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: Naresh Kamboju naresh.kamboju@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio riku.voipio@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk --- arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile | 2 ++ arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 ++ kernel/gcov/Kconfig | 2 +- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile index c394e30..5761f00 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/boot/bootp/Makefile @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ # architecture-specific flags and dependencies. #
+GCOV_PROFILE := n + LDFLAGS_bootp :=-p --no-undefined -X \ --defsym initrd_phys=$(INITRD_PHYS) \ --defsym params_phys=$(PARAMS_PHYS) -T diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile index 76a50ec..3ea230a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM_VIRT_EXT),y) OBJS += hyp-stub.o endif
+GCOV_PROFILE := n + # # Architecture dependencies # diff --git a/kernel/gcov/Kconfig b/kernel/gcov/Kconfig index d04ce8a..cf66c5c 100644 --- a/kernel/gcov/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/gcov/Kconfig @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ config GCOV_KERNEL config GCOV_PROFILE_ALL bool "Profile entire Kernel" depends on GCOV_KERNEL - depends on SUPERH || S390 || X86 || PPC || MICROBLAZE + depends on SUPERH || S390 || X86 || PPC || MICROBLAZE || ARM default n ---help--- This options activates profiling for the entire kernel.