Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: Revert 8ab2b7efd ftrace: Remove unnecessary disabling of irqs
  kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for gcc 4.6
  ftrace: Fix possible undefined return code
  oprofile, dcookies: Fix possible circular locking dependency
  oprofile: Fix locking dependency in sync_start()
  oprofile: Free potentially owned tasks in case of errors
  oprofile, x86: Add comments to IBS LVT offset initialization

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index f925c45f0afa..27d13b36b8be 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -1870,8 +1870,12 @@ fs_initcall(init_kprobe_trace);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
 
-static int kprobe_trace_selftest_target(int a1, int a2, int a3,
-                                        int a4, int a5, int a6)
+/*
+ * The "__used" keeps gcc from removing the function symbol
+ * from the kallsyms table.
+ */
+static __used int kprobe_trace_selftest_target(int a1, int a2, int a3,
+                                               int a4, int a5, int a6)
 {
         return a1 + a2 + a3 + a4 + a5 + a6;
 }