ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty

When DYNAMIC_FTRACE is enabled and we use the C version of recordmcount,
all objects are run through the recordmcount program to create a
separate section that stores all the callers of mcount.

The build process has a special file: scripts/mod/empty.o. This is
built from empty.c which is literally an empty file (except for a
single comment). This file is used to find information about the target
elf format, like endianness and word size.

The problem comes up when we need to build recordmcount. The
build process requires that empty.o is built first. The build rules
for empty.o will try to execute recordmcount on the empty.o file.
We get an error that recordmcount does not exist.

To avoid this recursion, the build file will skip running recordmcount
if the file that it is building is script/mod/empty.o.

[ extra comment Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> ]

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 4db60b2e2a76..843bd4f4ffc9 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -210,7 +210,13 @@ endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
 ifdef BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
-cmd_record_mcount = $(objtree)/scripts/recordmcount "$(@)";
+# Due to recursion, we must skip empty.o.
+# The empty.o file is created in the make process in order to determine
+#  the target endianness and word size. It is made before all other C
+#  files, including recordmcount.
+cmd_record_mcount = if [ $(@) != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then                  \
+                        $(objtree)/scripts/recordmcount "$(@)";                 \
+                    fi;
 else
 cmd_record_mcount = set -e ; perl $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl "$(ARCH)" \
         "$(if $(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN),big,little)" \