linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 1/3] Remove $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) dependency from CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO

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Message-Id: <20210113003235.716547-2-ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:32:33 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        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>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] Remove $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) dependency from CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4

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>
---
 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