linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Makefile.debug: re-enable debug info for .S files

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Message-ID: <CAGG=3QWSAUakO42kubrCap8fp-gm1ERJJAYXTnP1iHk_wrH=BQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:41:17 -0700
From:   Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Dmitrii Bundin <dmitrii.bundin.a@...il.com>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Alexey Alexandrov <aalexand@...gle.com>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Makefile.debug: re-enable debug info for .S files

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 11:10 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> Alexey reported that the fraction of unknown filename instances in
> kallsyms grew from ~0.3% to ~10% recently; Bill and Greg tracked it down
> to assembler defined symbols, which regressed as a result of:
>
> commit b8a9092330da ("Kbuild: do not emit debug info for assembly with LLVM_IAS=1")
>
> In that commit, I allude to restoring debug info for assembler defined
> symbols in a follow up patch, but it seems I forgot to do so in
>
> commit a66049e2cf0e ("Kbuild: make DWARF version a choice")
>
> This patch does a few things:
> 1. Add -g to KBUILD_AFLAGS. This will instruct the compiler to instruct
>    the assembler to emit debug info. But this can cause an issue for
>    folks using a newer compiler but older assembler, because the
>    implicit default DWARF version changed from v4 to v5 in gcc-11 and
>    clang-14.
> 2. If the user is using CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT, use a
>    version check to explicitly set -Wa,-gdwarf-<version> for the
>    assembler. There's another problem with this; GAS only gained support
>    for explicit DWARF versions 3-5 in the 2.36 GNU binutils release.
> 3. Wrap -Wa,-gdwarf-<version> in as-option call to test whether the
>    assembler supports that explicit DWARF version.
>
> Link: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=31bf18645d98b4d3d7357353be840e320649a67d
> Fixes: b8a9092330da ("Kbuild: do not emit debug info for assembly with LLVM_IAS=1")
> Reported-by: Alexey Alexandrov <aalexand@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.debug | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.debug b/scripts/Makefile.debug
> index 9f39b0130551..a7a6da7f6e7d 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.debug
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.debug
> @@ -4,18 +4,32 @@ ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
>  DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -gsplit-dwarf
>  else
>  DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -g
> +KBUILD_AFLAGS  += -g
>  endif
>
> -ifndef CONFIG_AS_IS_LLVM
> -KBUILD_AFLAGS  += -Wa,-gdwarf-2
> +ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
> +# gcc-11+, clang-14+
> +ifeq ($(shell [ $(CONFIG_GCC_VERSION) -ge 110000 -o $(CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION) -ge 140000 ] && echo y),y)

Do you think this would be better as a macro? Maybe something like:

if $(call cc-min-version,110000,140000)

where the first argument is GCC's min version and second Clang's min
version. It would be more readable and reusable.

-bw

> +dwarf-version-y := 5
> +else
> +dwarf-version-y := 4
>  endif
> -
> -ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
> +else # !CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
>  dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4) := 4
>  dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5) := 5
>  DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y)
>  endif
>
> +# Binutils 2.35+ (or clang) required for -gdwarf-{4|5}.
> +# https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=31bf18645d98b4d3d7357353be840e320649a67d
> +ifneq ($(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y)),)
> +KBUILD_AFLAGS  += -Wa,-gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y)
> +else
> +ifndef CONFIG_AS_IS_LLVM
> +KBUILD_AFLAGS  += -Wa,-gdwarf-2
> +endif
> +endif
> +
>  ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
>  DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -fno-var-tracking
>  ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
> --
> 2.37.2.672.g94769d06f0-goog
>