This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled um: Disable CONFIG_GCOV with MODULES to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: um-disable-config_gcov-with-modules.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d8f79612e66cc4d58b556af436d03272c95090e8 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 15 23:47:31 2021 +0100 um: Disable CONFIG_GCOV with MODULES [ Upstream commit ad3d19911632debc886ef4a992d41d6de7927006 ] CONFIG_GCOV doesn't work with modules, and for various reasons it cannot work, see also https://lore.kernel.org/r/d36ea54d8c0a8dd706826ba844a6f27691f45d55.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Make CONFIG_GCOV depend on !MODULES to avoid anyone running into issues there. This also means we need not export the gcov symbols. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.debug b/arch/um/Kconfig.debug index 315d368e63ad..1dfb2959c73b 100644 --- a/arch/um/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.debug @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ config GCOV bool "Enable gcov support" depends on DEBUG_INFO depends on !KCOV + depends on !MODULES help This option allows developers to retrieve coverage data from a UML session. diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/Makefile b/arch/um/kernel/Makefile index 5aa882011e04..e698e0c7dbdc 100644 --- a/arch/um/kernel/Makefile +++ b/arch/um/kernel/Makefile @@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ obj-y = config.o exec.o exitcode.o irq.o ksyms.o mem.o \ obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD) += initrd.o obj-$(CONFIG_GPROF) += gprof_syms.o -obj-$(CONFIG_GCOV) += gmon_syms.o obj-$(CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK) += early_printk.o obj-$(CONFIG_STACKTRACE) += stacktrace.o diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/gmon_syms.c b/arch/um/kernel/gmon_syms.c deleted file mode 100644 index 9361a8eb9bf1..000000000000 --- a/arch/um/kernel/gmon_syms.c +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 -/* - * Copyright (C) 2001 - 2007 Jeff Dike (jdike@{addtoit,linux.intel}.com) - */ - -#include <linux/module.h> - -extern void __bb_init_func(void *) __attribute__((weak)); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bb_init_func); - -extern void __gcov_init(void *) __attribute__((weak)); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__gcov_init); -extern void __gcov_merge_add(void *, unsigned int) __attribute__((weak)); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__gcov_merge_add); -extern void __gcov_exit(void) __attribute__((weak)); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__gcov_exit);