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riscv: ftrace: select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT
authorChen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>
Sun, 7 Jun 2026 02:17:53 +0000 (20:17 -0600)
committerPaul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Sun, 7 Jun 2026 05:48:14 +0000 (23:48 -0600)
commit9fd44698b11dbdf4d29fdef0f0da25f320c13854
treeb5fe8c64fd8847851d7d63060d455e43cf10b820
parent9f19a42083f5c1bcb7b0c330fa385d77fbd424fb
riscv: ftrace: select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT

RISC-V already satisfies all prerequisites for build-time mcount sorting:
the sorttable host tool handles EM_RISCV in its machine-type dispatch, and
the __mcount_loc section entries are stored as direct virtual addresses in
the final vmlinux binary, so no relocation processing is required during
the sort step.

Select HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT so that BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT is
automatically enabled when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is configured.  This allows
sorttable to sort the __mcount_loc section at link time, making the
run-time ftrace initialisation path skip the software sort and reducing
kernel startup overhead.

Verified with CONFIG_FTRACE_SORT_STARTUP_TEST=y, which confirms that
the section produced by the build is already in ascending order:

  [    0.000000] ftrace section at ffffffff81015a60 sorted properly

Signed-off-by: Chen Pei <cp0613@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409114736.907-1-cp0613@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
arch/riscv/Kconfig