[PATCH] kbuild: Simplify DEBUG_INFO Kconfig handling

From: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: Simplify DEBUG_INFO Kconfig handling
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 14:32:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200816123248.97770-1-sedat.dilek@gmail.com> (raw)

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

