$(asflags-y) $(AFLAGS_$(basetarget).o)
_cpp_flags = $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(cppflags-y) $(CPPFLAGS_$(@F))
+#
+# Enable gcov profiling flags for a file, directory or for all files depending
+# on variables GCOV_PROFILE_obj.o, GCOV_PROFILE and CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
+# (in this order)
+#
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL),y)
+_c_flags += $(if $(patsubst n%,, \
+ $(GCOV_PROFILE_$(basetarget).o)$(GCOV_PROFILE)$(CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL)), \
+ $(CFLAGS_GCOV))
+endif
+
# If building the kernel in a separate objtree expand all occurrences
# of -Idir to -I$(srctree)/dir except for absolute paths (starting with '/').
# Bzip2 and LZMA do not include size in file... so we have to fake that;
# append the size as a 32-bit littleendian number as gzip does.
-size_append = echo -ne $(shell \
+size_append = /bin/echo -ne $(shell \
dec_size=0; \
for F in $1; do \
fsize=$$(stat -c "%s" $$F); \