diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
index a512af1514b..b80e5d04416 100755
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ my ($arch, $bits, $objdump, $objcopy, $cc,
     $ld, $nm, $rm, $mv, $is_module, $inputfile) = @ARGV;
 
 # This file refers to mcount and shouldn't be ftraced, so lets' ignore it
-if ($inputfile eq "kernel/trace/ftrace.o") {
+if ($inputfile =~ m,kernel/trace/ftrace\.o$,) {
     exit(0);
 }