On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:31:42PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > With LTO, LLVM bitcode won't be compiled into native code until > modpost_link. This change postpones calls to recordmcount until after > this step. > > In order to exclude specific functions from inspection, we add a new > code section .text..nomcount, which we tell recordmcount to ignore, and > a __nomcount attribute for moving functions to this section. I'm confused, you only add this to functions in ftrace itself, which is compiled with: KBUILD_CFLAGS = $(subst $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),,$(ORIG_CFLAGS)) and so should not have mcount/fentry sites anyway. So what's the point of ignoring them further? This Changelog does not explain.
