x86: fix tsc unification buglet with ftrace and stackprotector
Yinghai Lu reported crashes on 64-bit x86: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 IP: [<ffffffff80253b17>] hrtick_start_fair+0x89/0x173 [...] And with a long session of debugging and a lot of difficulty, tracked it down to this commit: ---------------> 8fbbc4b4 is first bad commit commit 8fbbc4b4 Author: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Date: Tue Jul 1 11:43:34 2008 -0700 x86: merge tsc_init and clocksource code <-------------- The problem is that the TSC unification missed these Makefile rules in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile: # Do not profile debug and lowlevel utilities CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_64.o = -pg CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_32.o = -pg ... CFLAGS_tsc_64.o := $(nostackp) ... which rules make sure that various instrumentation and debugging facilities are disabled for code that might end up in a VDSO - such as the TSC code. Reported-and-bisected-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Conflicts: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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