There was some breakage with the changes for jump labels in the 4.11 merge
window. Namely powerpc broke as jump labels uses the two LSB bits as flags
in initialization. A check was added to make sure that all jump label
entries were 4 bytes aligned, but powerpc didn't work that way for modules.
Adding an alignment in the module linker script appeared to be the best
solution.
Jump labels also added an anonymous union to access those LSB bits as a
normal long. But because this structure had static initialization, it broke
older compilers that could not statically initialize anonymous unions
without brackets.
The command line parameter for setting function graph filter broke the
"EMPTY_HASH" descriptor by modifying it instead of creating a new hash to
hold the entries.
The command line parameter ftrace_graph_max_depth was added to allow its
setting at boot time. It uses existing code and only the command line hook
was added. This is not really a fix, but as it uses existing code without
affecting anything else, I added it to this release. It was ready before the
merge window closed, but I wanted to let it sit in linux-next for a couple
of days first.
ftrace/graph: Add ftrace_graph_max_depth kernel parameter
Early trace callgraphs can be extremely large on systems with
several seconds of boot time. The max_depth parameter limits how
deep the graph trace goes and reduces the output size. This
parameter is the same as the max_graph_depth file in tracefs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488499935-23216-1-git-send-email-todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
[ changed comments about debugfs to tracefs ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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