linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2014 01:16:12 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4

From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.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@...ux.intel.com>
---
 Makefile          | 3 +++
 lib/Kconfig.debug | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 953659e..9c4080b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -690,6 +690,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -g
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= -Wa,-gdwarf-2
 endif
 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 fb07c33..1af4d96 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -156,6 +156,15 @@ 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

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