From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: mmarek@suse.cz
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:11:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1406675493-2539-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406675493-2539-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
I found that a lot of unresolvable variables when using gdb on the kernel
become resolvable when dwarf4 is enabled. So add a Kconfig flag to enable it.
It definitely increases the debug information size, but on the other
hand this isn't so bad when debug fusion is used.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
---
Makefile | 3 +++
lib/Kconfig.debug | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6a717cd..6cdf3f0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -696,6 +696,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -g
endif
KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,-gdwarf-2
endif
+ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -gdwarf-4
+endif
ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly) \
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 0360468..a2dcf97 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -158,6 +158,15 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
to know about the .dwo files and include them.
Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
+config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
+ bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
+ depends on DEBUG_INFO
+ help
+ Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
+ of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
+ But it significantly improves the success of resolving
+ variables in gdb on optimized code.
+
config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
default y
--
1.8.5.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-29 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-29 23:11 [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Support split debug info v4 Andi Kleen
2014-07-29 23:11 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-07-30 13:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4 Michal Marek
2014-07-30 13:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Support split debug info v4 Michal Marek
2014-07-30 18:44 ` Andi Kleen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-07-15 23:16 [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Support split debug info v3 Andi Kleen
2014-07-15 23:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4 Andi Kleen
2014-07-20 19:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
2014-07-20 21:17 ` Andi Kleen
2014-05-16 22:06 [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Support split debug info v3 Andi Kleen
2014-05-16 22:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4 Andi Kleen
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