On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 03:04:08PM +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote: > If you use "-pg -mprofile-kernel", gcc seems to forget that, and omits the TOC > load, for a similar assembler calling sequence. > > Looking at the code I can _understand_ why this is so, but my GCC knowledge > is not that deep that I could easily _fix_ this reliably. Nonetheless, here's a proposal. --- a/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c +++ b/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c @@ -25154,6 +25154,10 @@ rs6000_emit_prologue (void) { cfun->machine->r2_setup_needed = df_regs_ever_live_p (TOC_REGNUM); + /* Profiling _will_ generate a call to a global _mcount. */ + if (crtl->profile) + cfun->machine->r2_setup_needed = true; + /* With -mminimal-toc we may generate an extra use of r2 below. */ if (TARGET_TOC && TARGET_MINIMAL_TOC && get_pool_size () != 0) cfun->machine->r2_setup_needed = true; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html