tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support

-mcount-nop gcc option generates the calls to the profiling functions
as nops which allows to avoid patching mcount jump with NOP instructions
initially.

-mcount-nop gcc option will be activated if platform selects
HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT and gcc actually supports it.
In addition to that CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT is defined and could be used by
architectures to adapt ftrace patching behavior.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/patch-3.thread-aa7b8d.git-e02ed2dc082b.your-ad-here.call-01533557518-ext-9465@work.hours

Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 036cec1fcd24..fd6754b88f87 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ config HAVE_FENTRY
         help
           Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mfentry
 
+config HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
+        bool
+        help
+          Arch supports the gcc options -pg with -mrecord-mcount and -nop-mcount
+
 config HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
         bool
         help
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 48b5b466ec7a..468e8527e979 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2950,12 +2950,14 @@ static int ftrace_update_code(struct module *mod, struct ftrace_page *new_pgs)
                         p = &pg->records[i];
                         p->flags = rec_flags;
 
+#ifndef CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT
                         /*
                          * Do the initial record conversion from mcount jump
                          * to the NOP instructions.
                          */
                         if (!ftrace_code_disable(mod, p))
                                 break;
+#endif
 
                         update_cnt++;
                 }