From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936209AbYEWHNo (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 03:13:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764951AbYEWHNV (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 03:13:21 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:53910 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763207AbYEWHNU (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 03:13:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 00:11:36 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Peter Oberparleiter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ltp-coverage@lists.sourceforge.net, Sam Ravnborg , Peter Oberparleiter , Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure Message-Id: <20080523001136.59ec8b34.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <48313DE6.30802@de.ibm.com> References: <48313DE6.30802@de.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:44:22 +0200 Peter Oberparleiter wrote: > + Note that a kernel compiled with profiling flags will be significantly > + larger and run slower. Also be sure to exclude files from profiling > + which are not linked to the kernel image to prevent linker errors. heh, it was all too much for mips. {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:2716: Error: Branch out of range {standard input}:2819: Error: Branch out of range {standard input}:2884: Error: Branch out of range {standard input}:3032: Error: Branch out of range {standard input}:3097: Error: Branch out of range {standard input}:3151: Error: Branch out of range {standard input}:3216: Error: Branch out of range make[1]: *** [drivers/telephony/ixj.o] Error 1 make: *** [drivers/telephony/ixj.o] Error 2