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ftrace/recordmcount: Avoid STT_FUNC symbols as base on ARM
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While find_secsym_ndx often finds the unamed local STT_SECTION, if a
section has only one function in it, the ARM toolchain generates the
STT_FUNC symbol before the STT_SECTION, and recordmcount finds this
instead.

This is problematic on ARM because in ARM ELFs, "if a [STT_FUNC] symbol
addresses a Thumb instruction, its value is the address of the
instruction with bit zero set (in a relocatable object, the section
offset with bit zero set)".  This leads to incorrect mcount addresses
being recorded.

Fix this by not using STT_FUNC symbols as the base on ARM.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
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vitkyrka authored and rostedt committed May 25, 2011
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#undef ELF_R_INFO
#undef Elf_r_info
#undef ELF_ST_BIND
#undef ELF_ST_TYPE
#undef fn_ELF_R_SYM
#undef fn_ELF_R_INFO
#undef uint_t
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# define ELF_R_INFO ELF64_R_INFO
# define Elf_r_info Elf64_r_info
# define ELF_ST_BIND ELF64_ST_BIND
# define ELF_ST_TYPE ELF64_ST_TYPE
# define fn_ELF_R_SYM fn_ELF64_R_SYM
# define fn_ELF_R_INFO fn_ELF64_R_INFO
# define uint_t uint64_t
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# define ELF_R_INFO ELF32_R_INFO
# define Elf_r_info Elf32_r_info
# define ELF_ST_BIND ELF32_ST_BIND
# define ELF_ST_TYPE ELF32_ST_TYPE
# define fn_ELF_R_SYM fn_ELF32_R_SYM
# define fn_ELF_R_INFO fn_ELF32_R_INFO
# define uint_t uint32_t
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if (txtndx == w2(symp->st_shndx)
/* avoid STB_WEAK */
&& (STB_LOCAL == st_bind || STB_GLOBAL == st_bind)) {
/* function symbols on ARM have quirks, avoid them */
if (w2(ehdr->e_machine) == EM_ARM
&& ELF_ST_TYPE(symp->st_info) == STT_FUNC)
continue;

*recvalp = _w(symp->st_value);
return symp - sym0;
}
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