Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Simplify DEBUG_INFO Kconfig handling

[Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>]

Just a friendly ping.

- Sedat -

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 2:32 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While playing with [1] I saw that the handling
> of CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO can be simplified.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11716107/
>
> Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Makefile          |  6 +++++-
>  lib/Kconfig.debug | 10 ++++------
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 24a4c1b97bb0..f7af83393a49 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -810,13 +810,15 @@ endif
>  DEBUG_CFLAGS   := $(call cc-option, -fno-var-tracking-assignments)
>
>  ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
> +
>  ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
>  DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -gsplit-dwarf
>  else
>  DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -g
>  endif
> +
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS  += -Wa,-gdwarf-2
> -endif
> +
>  ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
>  DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -gdwarf-4
>  endif
> @@ -832,6 +834,8 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS       += -gz=zlib
>  KBUILD_LDFLAGS += --compress-debug-sections=zlib
>  endif
>
> +endif # CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
> +
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(DEBUG_CFLAGS)
>  export DEBUG_CFLAGS
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 9ad9210d70a1..19930c412b93 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -212,9 +212,10 @@ config DEBUG_INFO
>
>           If unsure, say N.
>
> +if DEBUG_INFO
> +
>  config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
>         bool "Reduce debugging information"
> -       depends on DEBUG_INFO
>         help
>           If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging
>           information for structure types. This means that tools that
> @@ -227,7 +228,6 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
>
>  config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
>         bool "Compressed debugging information"
> -       depends on DEBUG_INFO
>         depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib)
>         depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib)
>         help
> @@ -243,7 +243,6 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
>
>  config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
>         bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
> -       depends on DEBUG_INFO
>         depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf)
>         help
>           Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly
> @@ -259,7 +258,6 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
>
>  config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
>         bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
> -       depends on DEBUG_INFO
>         depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
>         help
>           Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
> @@ -269,7 +267,6 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
>
>  config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
>         bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
> -       depends on DEBUG_INFO
>         depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
>         depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST
>         help
> @@ -279,7 +276,6 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
>
>  config GDB_SCRIPTS
>         bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
> -       depends on DEBUG_INFO
>         help
>           This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the
>           build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper
> @@ -288,6 +284,8 @@ config GDB_SCRIPTS
>           instance. See Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
>           for further details.
>
> +endif # DEBUG_INFO
> +
>  config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
>         bool "Enable __must_check logic"
>         default y
> --
> 2.28.0
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