scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc
authorUlrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:14:22 +0000 (23:14 +1100)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Wed, 13 Jan 2016 01:35:41 +0000 (12:35 +1100)
commit2e50c4bef77511b42cc226865d6bc568fa7f8769
tree5c255f1a66df6142d2c5166975a70c17a0733ffd
parentc88c5d43732a0356f99e5e4d1ad62ab1ea516b81
scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc

If a text section starts out with a data blob before the first
function start label, disassembly parsing doing in recordmcount.pl
gets confused on powerpc, leading to creation of corrupted module
objects.

This was not a problem so far since the compiler would never create
such text sections.  However, this has changed with a recent change
in GCC 6 to support distances of > 2GB between a function and its
assoicated TOC in the ELFv2 ABI, exposing this problem.

There is already code in recordmcount.pl to handle such data blobs
on the sparc64 platform.  This patch uses the same method to handle
those on powerpc as well.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
scripts/recordmcount.pl