powerpc/ftrace: Add a postlink script to validate function tracer
authorNaveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:08:43 +0000 (12:38 +0530)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:54 +0000 (11:00 +1100)
commit782f46cbce5328da9380f166bd31cd17a04a7b10
tree0568a611d4611c8430db6ca0d4b0d00fa2214adf
parent9670f6d2097c4f97e15c67920dfddc664d7ee91c
powerpc/ftrace: Add a postlink script to validate function tracer

Function tracer on powerpc can only work with vmlinux having a .text
size of up to ~64MB due to powerpc branch instruction having a limited
relative branch range of 32MB. Today, this is only detected on kernel
boot when ftrace is init'ed. Add a post-link script to check the size of
.text so that we can detect this at build time, and break the build if
necessary.

We add a dependency on !COMPILE_TEST for CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER so
that allyesconfig and other test builds can continue to work without
enabling ftrace.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241030070850.1361304-11-hbathini@linux.ibm.com
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/Makefile.postlink
arch/powerpc/tools/ftrace_check.sh [new file with mode: 0755]