This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scripts/recordmcount.pl: Fix RISC-V regex for clang 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: scripts-recordmcount.pl-fix-risc-v-regex-for-clang.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 f7554d9fcac18aad45ea4d9f1fccfeca7df62118 Author: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 25 15:38:05 2021 -0700 scripts/recordmcount.pl: Fix RISC-V regex for clang [ Upstream commit 2f095504f4b9cf75856d6a9cf90299cf75aa46c5 ] Clang can generate R_RISCV_CALL_PLT relocations to _mcount: $ llvm-objdump -dr build/riscv/init/main.o | rg mcount 000000000000000e: R_RISCV_CALL_PLT _mcount 000000000000004e: R_RISCV_CALL_PLT _mcount After this, the __start_mcount_loc section is properly generated and function tracing still works. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1331 Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl index 867860ea57da..a36df04cfa09 100755 --- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") { $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\s_mcount\$"; } elsif ($arch eq "riscv") { $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<([^.0-9][0-9a-zA-Z_\\.]+)>:"; - $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):\\sR_RISCV_CALL\\s_mcount\$"; + $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):\\sR_RISCV_CALL(_PLT)?\\s_mcount\$"; $type = ".quad"; $alignment = 2; } elsif ($arch eq "nds32") {