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ARM 64 uses -fpatchable-function-entry=4,2 which adds padding before the
function and the addresses in the mcount_loc point there instead of the
function entry that is returned by nm. In order to find a function from nm
to make sure it's not an unused weak function, the entries in the
mcount_loc section needs to match the entries from nm. Since it can be an
instruction before the entry, add a before_func variable that ARM 64 can
set to 8, and if the mcount_loc entry is within 8 bytes of the nm function
entry, then it will be considered a match.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250225182054.815536219@goodmis.org
Fixes: ef378c3b82 ("scripts/sorttable: Zero out weak functions in mcount_loc table")
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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