From: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk>

recordmcount edits the file in-place, which can cause problems when
using ccache in hardlink mode.  Arrange for recordmcount to break a
hardlinked object.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e1a7mvt-0000et...@rmk-pc.arm.linux.org.uk

Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.37+
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
---
 scripts/recordmcount.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.c b/scripts/recordmcount.c
index 698768bdc581..91705ef30402 100644
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.c
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.c
@@ -211,6 +211,20 @@ static void *mmap_file(char const *fname)
                addr = umalloc(sb.st_size);
                uread(fd_map, addr, sb.st_size);
        }
+       if (sb.st_nlink != 1) {
+               /* file is hard-linked, break the hard link */
+               close(fd_map);
+               if (unlink(fname) < 0) {
+                       perror(fname);
+                       fail_file();
+               }
+               fd_map = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, sb.st_mode);
+               if (fd_map < 0) {
+                       perror(fname);
+                       fail_file();
+               }
+               uwrite(fd_map, addr, sb.st_size);
+       }
        return addr;
 }
 
-- 
2.6.2


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