kbuild/recordmcount: Add RECORDMCOUNT_WARN to warn about mcount callers

When mcount is called in a section that ftrace will not modify it into
a nop, we want to warn about this. But not warn about this always. Now
if the user builds the kernel with the option RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 then
the build will warn about mcount callers that are ignored and will just
waste execution time.

Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.714956282@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 41ea6fbec55a..e7d01adaf692 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1268,6 +1268,7 @@ help:
         @echo  '  make C=1   [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse by default)'
         @echo  '  make C=2   [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK'
         @echo  '  make W=1   [targets] Enable extra gcc checks'
+        @echo  '  make RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 [targets] Warn about ignored mcount sections'
         @echo  ''
         @echo  'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*] '
         @echo  'For further info see the ./README file'