ARM: 8788/1: ftrace: remove old mcount support

Commit cafa0010cd51 ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6")
raised the minimum GCC version to 4.6. Old mcount is only required for
GCC versions older than 4.4.0. Hence old mcount support can be dropped
too.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 71 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-ftrace.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
index efcd9f25a14b..0be69e551a64 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
@@ -15,23 +15,8 @@
  * start of every function.  In mcount, apart from the function's address (in
  * lr), we need to get hold of the function's caller's address.
  *
- * Older GCCs (pre-4.4) inserted a call to a routine called mcount like this:
- *
- *	bl	mcount
- *
- * These versions have the limitation that in order for the mcount routine to
- * be able to determine the function's caller's address, an APCS-style frame
- * pointer (which is set up with something like the code below) is required.
- *
- *	mov     ip, sp
- *	push    {fp, ip, lr, pc}
- *	sub     fp, ip, #4
- *
- * With EABI, these frame pointers are not available unless -mapcs-frame is
- * specified, and if building as Thumb-2, not even then.
- *
- * Newer GCCs (4.4+) solve this problem by introducing a new version of mcount,
- * with call sites like:
+ * Newer GCCs (4.4+) solve this problem by using a version of mcount with call
+ * sites like:
  *
  *	push	{lr}
  *	bl	__gnu_mcount_nc
@@ -46,17 +31,10 @@
  * allows it to be clobbered in subroutines and doesn't use it to hold
  * parameters.)
  *
- * When using dynamic ftrace, we patch out the mcount call by a "mov r0, r0"
- * for the mcount case, and a "pop {lr}" for the __gnu_mcount_nc case (see
- * arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c).
+ * When using dynamic ftrace, we patch out the mcount call by a "pop {lr}"
+ * instead of the __gnu_mcount_nc call (see arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c).
  */
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT
-#if (__GNUC__ < 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 4))
-#error Ftrace requires CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y with GCC older than 4.4.0.
-#endif
-#endif
-
 .macro mcount_adjust_addr rd, rn
 	bic	\rd, \rn, #1		@ clear the Thumb bit if present
 	sub	\rd, \rd, #MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE
@@ -209,51 +187,6 @@ ftrace_graph_call\suffix:
 	mcount_exit
 .endm
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_OLD_MCOUNT
-/*
- * mcount
- */
-
-.macro mcount_enter
-	stmdb	sp!, {r0-r3, lr}
-.endm
-
-.macro mcount_get_lr reg
-	ldr	\reg, [fp, #-4]
-.endm
-
-.macro mcount_exit
-	ldr	lr, [fp, #-4]
-	ldmia	sp!, {r0-r3, pc}
-.endm
-
-ENTRY(mcount)
-#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-	stmdb	sp!, {lr}
-	ldr	lr, [fp, #-4]
-	ldmia	sp!, {pc}
-#else
-	__mcount _old
-#endif
-ENDPROC(mcount)
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-ENTRY(ftrace_caller_old)
-	__ftrace_caller _old
-ENDPROC(ftrace_caller_old)
-#endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
-ENTRY(ftrace_graph_caller_old)
-	__ftrace_graph_caller
-ENDPROC(ftrace_graph_caller_old)
-#endif
-
-.purgem mcount_enter
-.purgem mcount_get_lr
-.purgem mcount_exit
-#endif
-
 /*
  * __gnu_mcount_nc
  */