From: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Golovin <dima@golovin.in>,
Alistair Delva <adelva@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] Kbuild: implement support for DWARF v5
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:28:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201124172836.GA346213@rani.riverdale.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201104005343.4192504-5-ndesaulniers@google.com>
On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 04:53:43PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> DWARF v5 is the latest standard of the DWARF debug info format.
>
> Feature detection of DWARF5 is onerous, especially given that we've
> removed $(AS), so we must query $(CC) for DWARF5 assembler directive
> support. GNU `as` only recently gained support for specifying
> -gdwarf-5.
With gcc, using -gdwarf-5 even without -Wa,--gdwarf-5 results in
considerably smaller debug info. gcc does not seem to generate the .file 0
directive that causes older GNU as to barf.
Should the assembler support check be restricted to CC_IS_CLANG?
> /* Stabs debugging sections. */
> #define STABS_DEBUG \
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 03c494eefabd..c5b54ba51060 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -274,6 +274,14 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
> It makes the debug information larger, but it significantly
> improves the success of resolving variables in gdb on optimized code.
>
> +config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5
> + bool "Generate DWARF5 debuginfo"
> + depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-5)
> + depends on $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS))
> + help
> + Genereate dwarf5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35+, gcc 5.1+, and
> + gdb 8.0+.
> +
> endchoice # "DWARF version"
Perhaps this can be expanded with some description of the advantages of
dwarf5 over dwarf4?
>
> config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
> diff --git a/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh b/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..156ad5ec4274
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +# Test that assembler accepts -gdwarf-5 and .file 0 directives, which were bugs
> +# in binutils < 2.35.
> +# https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25612
> +# https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25614
> +set -e
> +echo '.file 0 "filename"' | $* -Wa,-gdwarf-5 -c -x assembler -o /dev/null -
This also actually needs --gdwarf-5 to really check the support for the
option, but older versions should error on the .file 0 in any case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-24 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 1:21 [PATCH] Kbuild: implement support for DWARF5 Nick Desaulniers
2020-10-22 1:44 ` Fangrui Song
2020-11-03 22:27 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-10-28 18:18 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-02 2:20 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-11-02 8:18 ` Jakub Jelinek
2020-11-03 22:21 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-04 12:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2020-11-03 22:13 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-04 0:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Kbuild: DWARF v5 support Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-04 0:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] x86_64: Change .weak to SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK for arch/x86/lib/mem*_64.S Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-04 0:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Kbuild: do not emit debug info for assembly with LLVM_IAS=1 Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-05 6:58 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-11-05 7:26 ` Fangrui Song
2020-11-09 18:28 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-09 18:35 ` [PATCH v3] " Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-16 23:41 ` Nick Desaulniers
[not found] ` <CA+SOCLJTg6U+Ddop_5O-baVR42va3vGAvMQ62o9H6rd+10aKrw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-11-23 18:42 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-24 18:44 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-11-04 0:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] Kbuild: make DWARF version a choice Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-05 5:58 ` kernel test robot
2020-11-23 23:22 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-11-24 0:33 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-11-24 16:56 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-11-24 17:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-11-30 18:04 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-11-30 20:27 ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2020-12-01 3:38 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-12-01 9:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-12-02 1:08 ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2020-11-30 20:45 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-12-01 4:17 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-11-04 0:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] Kbuild: implement support for DWARF v5 Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-24 17:28 ` Arvind Sankar [this message]
2020-12-03 23:22 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-12-03 23:28 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-12-04 17:06 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-12-10 23:18 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-12-11 0:29 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-12-01 1:56 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-11-04 0:00 ` [PATCH] Kbuild: implement support for DWARF5 Arvind Sankar
2020-11-04 0:05 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-04 0:17 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-12-03 22:56 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-12-04 0:17 ` Nick Desaulniers
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