On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 18:00 +0000, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com> > > [ Upstream commit 55b6f763d8bcb5546997933105d66d3e6b080e6a ] > > On ARCH=um, loading a module doesn't result in its constructors getting > called, which breaks module gcov since the debugfs files are never > registered. On the other hand, in-kernel constructors have already been > called by the dynamic linker, so we can't call them again. > > Get out of this conundrum by allowing CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS to be > selected, but avoiding the in-kernel constructor calls. > > Also remove the "if !UML" from GCOV selecting CONSTRUCTORS now, since we > really do want CONSTRUCTORS, just not kernel binary ones. > > Link: > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210120172041.c246a2cac2fb.I1358f584b76f1898373adfed77f4462c8705b736@changeid >
While I don't really *object* to this getting backported, it's also a (development) corner case that somebody wants gcov and modules in ARCH=um ... I'd probably not backport this. johannes
