From 17c568d60af5a810208baf116dc174a2005c6c3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:11:27 -0800
Subject: gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version

Compile the correct gcov implementation file for the specific gcc version.

Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <agospoda@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 Documentation/gcov.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Documentation/gcov.txt')

diff --git a/Documentation/gcov.txt b/Documentation/gcov.txt
index e7ca647..7b72778 100644
--- a/Documentation/gcov.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gcov.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ Configure the kernel with:
         CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
         CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y
 
+select the gcc's gcov format, default is autodetect based on gcc version:
+
+        CONFIG_GCOV_FORMAT_AUTODETECT=y
+
 and to get coverage data for the entire kernel:
 
         CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y
-- 
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