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    ftrace/x86: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it · 8329e818
    Steven Rostedt authored
    Matt Fleming reported seeing crashes when enabling and disabling
    function profiling which uses function graph tracer. Later Namhyung Kim
    hit a similar issue and he found that the issue was due to the jmp to
    ftrace_stub in ftrace_graph_call was only two bytes, and when it was
    changed to jump to the tracing code, it overwrote the ftrace_stub that
    was after it.
    
    Masami Hiramatsu bisected this down to a binutils change:
    
    8dcea93252a9ea7dff57e85220a719e2a5e8ab41 is the first bad commit
    commit 8dcea93252a9ea7dff57e85220a719e2a5e8ab41
    Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
    Date:   Fri May 15 03:17:31 2015 -0700
    
        Add -mshared option to x86 ELF assembler
    
        This patch adds -mshared option to x86 ELF assembler.  By default,
        assembler will optimize out non-PLT relocations against defined non-weak
        global branch targets with default visibility.  The -mshared option tells
        the assembler to generate code which may go into a shared library
        where all non-weak global branch targets with default visibility can
        be preempted.  The resulting code is slightly bigger.  This option
        only affects the handling of branch instructions.
    
    Declaring ftrace_stub as a weak call prevents gas from using two byte
    jumps to it, which would be converted to a jump to the function graph
    code.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516230035.1dbae571@gandalf.local.homeReported-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
    Reported-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Tested-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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