linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] Kbuild: make DWARF version a choice

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:40:44 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Caroline Tice <cmtice@...gle.com>,
        Nick Clifton <nickc@...hat.com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] Kbuild: make DWARF version a choice

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 1:41 PM Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 04:32:32PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > Given what Jakub is saying, i.e. it was previously impossible to get
> > dwarf2 with gcc, and you get dwarf4 whether or not DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 was
>
> It isn't impossible to get it, -gdwarf-2 works, it is just not a very good
> choice (at least unless one knows some debug info consumer is not DWARF3 or
> later ready).
> Though, even gcc -gdwarf-2 will use many extensions from DWARF3 and later,
> as long as there is no way to describe stuff in DWARF2.  -gstrict-dwarf
> option requests that no DWARF extensions are used.

Playing with this in godbolt, it looks like the implicit default dwarf
version changed from 2 to 4 in somewhere between the GCC 4.7.4 and
4.8.1 release. The precise version, and whether it was strictly that
version or not doesn't matter much; the minimum supported version of
GCC for building the kernel currently being 4.9 means that without
specifying DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4, that all kernel developers regardless of
toolchain and supported toolchain version have been building as DWARF
v4 (implicitly, or explicitly). DWARF v2 is quite irrelevant then.

Ok, so I think Arvind's suggestion of "make DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 a menu
option, just don't add a DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2" makes a lot of sense.
Will drop DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2 in v7.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers