linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Add an option to enable GCC VTA

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Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:42:37 -0400
From:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc:	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Josh Stone <jistone@...hat.com>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Add an option to enable GCC VTA

Hi, Josh -

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:40:02AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> [...]
> Frank, did you rebase this against some newer tree or something?

Yes; the lib/Kconfig.debug part didn't apply to current git.

> Curious why you sent it again.

At least as a patch-ping; the poor-debuginfo problems are reported to
affect non-fedora users too.


> > +ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_VTA
> > +KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option, -fvar-tracking-assignments)
> > +else
> > +KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option, -fno-var-tracking-assignments)
> > +endif
> > +
> 
> Is there a reason you moved this hunk under the DWARF4 options instead
> of modifying it in-place like the original patch did?

Yes, this version appears a little safer, in the sense that without
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO, neither setting of CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_VTA would
affect the CFLAGS.  (In fact, Jakub advises the positive polarity
-fvar-tracking-assignments is redundant with -g, and the negative
polarity one only provides codegen-bug-protection in the
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO case.)


- FChE
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