Merge tag 'trace-v4.4-rc4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull ftrace/recordmcount fix from Steven Rostedt:
"Russell King was reporting lots of warnings when he compiled his
kernel with ftrace enabled. With some investigation it was discovered
that it was his compile setup. He was using ccache with hard links,
which allowed recordmcount to process the same .o twice. When this
happens, recordmcount will detect that it was already done and give a
warning about it.
Russell fixed this by having recordmcount detect that the object file
has more than one hard link, and if it does, it unlinks the object
file after it maps it and processes then. This appears to fix the
issue.
As you did not like the fact that recordmcount modified the file in
place and thought that it should do the modifications in memory and
then write it out to disk and move it over the old file to prevent
other more subtle issues like the one above, a second patch is added
on top of Russell's to do just that. Luckily the original code had
write and lseek wrappers that I was able to modify to not do inplace
writes, but simply keep track of the changes made in memory. When a
write is made, a "update" flag is set, and at the end of processing,
if the update is set, then it writes the file with changes out to a
new file, and then renames it over the original one.
The file descriptor is still passed to the write and lseek wrappers
because removing that would cause the change to be more intrusive.
That can be removed in a follow up cleanup patch that can wait till
the next merge window"
* tag 'trace-v4.4-rc4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
ftrace/scripts: Have recordmcount copy the object file
scripts: recordmcount: break hardlinks
