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authorLi Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>2009-10-28 13:06:19 +0800
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2009-10-29 15:11:52 -0400
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tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl
Add a variable to contain the regex needed to find weak functions in the 'nm' output. This will allow other archs to easily override it. Also rename the regex variable $nm_regex to $local_regex to be more descriptive. Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091028050619.GF30758@uhli> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/recordmcount.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/recordmcount.pl16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
index 02c80552b078..7265a7dcac4b 100755
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
#
# Here are the steps we take:
#
-# 1) Record all the local symbols by using 'nm'
+# 1) Record all the local and weak symbols by using 'nm'
# 2) Use objdump to find all the call site offsets and sections for
# mcount.
# 3) Compile the list into its own object.
@@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ my %weak; # List of weak functions
my %convert; # List of local functions used that needs conversion
my $type;
-my $nm_regex; # Find the local functions (return function)
+my $local_regex; # Match a local function (return function)
+my $weak_regex; # Match a weak function (return function)
my $section_regex; # Find the start of a section
my $function_regex; # Find the name of a function
# (return offset and func name)
@@ -197,7 +198,8 @@ if ($arch eq "x86") {
# We base the defaults off of i386, the other archs may
# feel free to change them in the below if statements.
#
-$nm_regex = "^[0-9a-fA-F]+\\s+t\\s+(\\S+)";
+$local_regex = "^[0-9a-fA-F]+\\s+t\\s+(\\S+)";
+$weak_regex = "^[0-9a-fA-F]+\\s+([wW])\\s+(\\S+)";
$section_regex = "Disassembly of section\\s+(\\S+):";
$function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(.*?)>:";
$mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\smcount\$";
@@ -246,7 +248,7 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") {
$cc .= " -m32";
} elsif ($arch eq "powerpc") {
- $nm_regex = "^[0-9a-fA-F]+\\s+t\\s+(\\.?\\S+)";
+ $local_regex = "^[0-9a-fA-F]+\\s+t\\s+(\\.?\\S+)";
$function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(\\.?.*?)>:";
$mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\s\\.?_mcount\$";
@@ -322,13 +324,13 @@ check_objcopy();
#
# Step 1: find all the local (static functions) and weak symbols.
-# 't' is local, 'w/W' is weak (we never use a weak function)
+# 't' is local, 'w/W' is weak
#
open (IN, "$nm $inputfile|") || die "error running $nm";
while (<IN>) {
- if (/$nm_regex/) {
+ if (/$local_regex/) {
$locals{$1} = 1;
- } elsif (/^[0-9a-fA-F]+\s+([wW])\s+(\S+)/) {
+ } elsif (/$weak_regex/) {
$weak{$2} = $1;
}
}