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Function tracer on powerpc can only work with vmlinux having a .text size of up to ~64MB due to powerpc branch instruction having a limited relative branch range of 32MB. Today, this is only detected on kernel boot when ftrace is init'ed. Add a post-link script to check the size of .text so that we can detect this at build time, and break the build if necessary. We add a dependency on !COMPILE_TEST for CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER so that allyesconfig and other test builds can continue to work without enabling ftrace. Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241030070850.1361304-11-hbathini@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.