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Message-ID: <20210113174841.GA4158893@ubuntu-m3-large-x86>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:48:41 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
Caroline Tice <cmtice@...gle.com>,
Nick Clifton <nickc@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] Remove $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) dependency from
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 04:32:33PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
>
> The -gdwarf-4 flag is supported by GCC 4.5+, and also by Clang.
>
> You can see it at https://godbolt.org/z/6ed1oW
>
> For gcc 4.5.3 pane, line 37: .value 0x4
> For clang 10.0.1 pane, line 117: .short 4
>
> Given Documentation/process/changes.rst stating GCC 4.9 is the minimal
> version, this cc-option is unneeded.
>
> Note
> ----
>
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 controls the DWARF version only for C files.
>
> As you can see in the top Makefile, -gdwarf-4 is only passed to CFLAGS.
>
> ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
> DEBUG_CFLAGS += -gdwarf-4
> endif
>
> This flag is used when compiling *.c files.
>
> On the other hand, the assembler is always given -gdwarf-2.
>
> KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,-gdwarf-2
>
> Hence, the debug info that comes from *.S files is always DWARF v2.
> This is simply because GAS supported only -gdwarf-2 for a long time.
>
> Recently, GAS gained the support for --dwarf-[3|4|5] options. [1]
> And, also we have Clang integrated assembler. So, the debug info
> for *.S files might be improved if we want.
>
> In my understanding, the current code is intentional, not a bug.
>
> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=31bf18645d98b4d3d7357353be840e320649a67d
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
> ---
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 78361f0abe3a..dd7d8d35b2a5 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
>
> config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
> bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
> - depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
> help
> Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
> of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
> --
> 2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5eaa7-goog
>
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