FreeBSD has used ELF binaries/libraries for decades, but still has some
support for legacy a.out binaries. Portions of this have been retired
over time, but support remained in ldd, ldconfig, and gprof.
Retire gprof support; if anyone needs to do development on a.out
binaries still they will be best served by installing a full FreeBSD 2.x
or other obsolete version in a jail.
Kernel support for executing a.out binaries is unchnaged.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27480
* Remove identical or almost identical headers
* Only build aout.c on amd64 and i386. None of the the other current
architectures ever supported running a.out binaries
* Enable on all architectures
Sponsored by: Innovate UK
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26369
The ugly stick here is this bit in the respective headers:
#ifndef EXTERN
#define EXTERN extern
#endif
with a follow-up #define EXTERN in a single .c file to push all of their
definitions into one spot. A pass should be made over these three later to
push these definitions into the correct files instead, but this will suffice
for now and at a more leisurely pace.
MFC after: 3 days
Add a missing riscv.h header file, and fix the check for riscv (must test
MACHINE_CPUARCH, not MACHINE_ARCH, if we want to use 'riscv').
Sponsored by: Axiado
On arm64, riscv, and s390x disable building of aout components.
This allows gprof to build on these architectures which never supported
the legacy a.out binary format.
Obtained from: s390x branch
MFC after: 3 months
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
Off by default, build behaves normally.
WITH_META_MODE we get auto objdir creation, the ability to
start build from anywhere in the tree.
Still need to add real targets under targets/ to build packages.
Differential Revision: D2796
Reviewed by: brooks imp
This includes:
o All directories named *ia64*
o All files named *ia64*
o All ia64-specific code guarded by __ia64__
o All ia64-specific makefile logic
o Mention of ia64 in comments and documentation
This excludes:
o Everything under contrib/
o Everything under crypto/
o sys/xen/interface
o sys/sys/elf_common.h
Discussed at: BSDcan
On ARM, binutils are adding '$a' symbols in the symbol table for
every function (in addition to normal symbol). When gprof(1) looks
up symbol name, it often reads '$a' instead of proper function name,
because it find it first. With this fix, when read symbol name
begins with '$' and previous symbol has the same address, it will
use previous symbol name (which is proper function name).
Obtained from: Semihalf
is in accordance with the information provided at
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
Also add $FreeBSD$ to a few files to keep svn happy.
Discussed with: imp, rwatson
argument. Before this fix, after searching the currently-running kernel,
we would still search the a.out argument - completely override the in-kernel
list, essentially defeating the K flag's purpose.
PR: 47387
Submitted by: Ryan Beasley <ryanb@goddamnbastard.org>
appear to be never called:
(1) If a function is never called according to its call count but it
must have been called because its child time is nonzero, then print
it in the flat profile. Previously, if its call count was zero
then we only printed it in the flat profile if its self time was
nonzero.
(2) If a function has a zero call count but has a nonzero self or child
time, then print its total self time in the self time per call
column as a percentage of the total (self + child) time. It is
not possible to print the times per call in this case because the
call count is zero. Previously, this was handled by leaving both
per-call columns blank. The self time is printed in another column
but there was no way to recover the total time.
(1) partially fixes the case of the "never called" function main() and
prepares for (2) to apply to main() and other functions. Profiling
of main() was lost in the conversion from a.out to ELF, so main()'s
call count has always been zero for many years; then in the common
case where main() is a tiny function, it gets no profiling ticks, so
main() was completely lost in the flat profile.
(2) improves mainly cases like kernel threads. Most kernel threads
appear to be never called because they are always started before
userland can run to turn on profiling. As for main(), the fact that
they are called is not very interesting and their callers are
uninteresting, but their relative self time is interesting since they
are long-running.
Almost always printing percentages in the per-call columns would be
more useful than almost always printing 0.0ms. 0.1ms is now a long
time, so only very large functions take that long per call. The accuracy
per call can approach 1-10 nsec provided programs are run for about
100000 times as long as is necessary to get this accuracy with high
resolution kernel profiling.
