From: Mischa Jonker <mischa.jonker@synopsys.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:10:58 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: perf: Don't build backtrace for ARC
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fc093d61ce24c0adb0dda3940940664c182626e9;p=buildroot.git

perf: Don't build backtrace for ARC

[Thomas: add more details as a comment in the code, provided by Anton
Kolesov.

Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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diff --git a/package/perf/perf.mk b/package/perf/perf.mk
index ffeec0282f..1fcc25863f 100644
--- a/package/perf/perf.mk
+++ b/package/perf/perf.mk
@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ PERF_MAKE_FLAGS = \
 	WERROR=0 \
 	ASCIIDOC=
 
+# The call to backtrace() function fails for ARC, because for some
+# reason the unwinder from libgcc returns early. Thus the usage of
+# backtrace() should be disabled in perf explicitly: at build time
+# backtrace() appears to be available, but it fails at runtime: the
+# backtrace will contain only several functions from the top of stack,
+# instead of the complete backtrace.
+ifeq ($(BR2_arc),y)
+	PERF_MAKE_FLAGS += NO_BACKTRACE=1
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS),y)
 	PERF_DEPENDENCIES += elfutils
 else