trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace

gcc 5 supports a new -mcount-record option to generate ftrace
tables directly. This avoids the need to run record_mcount
manually.

Use this option when available.

So far doesn't use -mcount-nop, which also exists now.

This is needed to make ftrace work with LTO because the
normal record-mcount script doesn't run over the link
time output.

It should also improve build times slightly in the general
case.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127213423.27218-12-andi@firstfloor.org

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 8bdb1dc4072c..dcbca18011bb 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ cmd_modversions_c =								\
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
+# gcc 5 supports generating the mcount tables directly
+ifneq ($(call cc-option,-mrecord-mcount,y),y)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mrecord-mcount
+else
+# else do it all manually
 ifdef BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
 ifeq ("$(origin RECORDMCOUNT_WARN)", "command line")
   RECORDMCOUNT_FLAGS = -w
@@ -259,6 +264,7 @@ ifneq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
   objtool_args += --retpoline
 endif
 endif
+endif
 
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS