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History lesson courtesy of Steve: "When ftrace first was introduced to the kernel, it used gcc's mcount profiling mechanism. The mcount mechanism would add a call to "mcount" at the start of every function but after the stack frame was set up. Later, in gcc 4.6, gcc introduced -mfentry, that would create a call to "__fentry__" instead of "mcount", before the stack frame was set up. In order to handle both cases, ftrace defined a macro "function_hook" that would be either "mcount" or "__fentry__" depending on which one was being used. The Linux kernel no longer supports the "mcount" method, thus there's no reason to keep the "function_hook" define around. Simply use "__fentry__", as there is no ambiguity to the name anymore." Drop it everywhere. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: x86@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191018124800.0a7006bb@gandalf.local.home
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.