Hi Claus,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-snps-arc <[email protected]> On Behalf 
> Of Claudiu Zissulescu
> Ianculescu
> Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:10 AM
> To: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexey Brodkin <[email protected]>; [email protected]; 
> Steven Rostedt
> <[email protected]>; Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>; 
> [email protected]; Eugeniy
> Paltsev <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [RFC] ARC: initial ftrace support
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ARC-gcc has two modes to call the mcount routines. When using elf32
> configuration, the toolchain is set to use newlib mcount. When
> configured for linux, gcc toolchain is using a library call to _mcall
> (single underscore)  having blink as input argument.
> So, using the proper linux toolchain, your patch should work.


Is there a chance to switch to Linux-style mcount in Elf32 toolchain with a 
command-line
option?

Otherwise I guess we'll need to implement some warning which explicitly says 
why Elf32
toolchain is not usable for building the Linux kernel... at least in case with 
ftrace enabled.

-Alexey

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