linux-kernel - [PATCH v11 11/15] unwind_user/sframe/x86: Enable sframe unwinding on x86

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Message-ID: <20251022144326.4082059-12-jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:43:22 +0200
From: Jens Remus <jremus@...ux.ibm.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v11 11/15] unwind_user/sframe/x86: Enable sframe unwinding on x86

From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>

The x86 sframe 2.0 implementation works fairly well, starting with
binutils 2.41 (though some bugs are getting fixed in later versions).
Enable it.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>
Cc: Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@...cle.com>
Cc: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@....org>
Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@...ux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Jens Remus <jremus@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
Cc: Sam James <sam@...too.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <codonell@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 8f94c58d4de8..c3518f145f0d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ config X86
 	select HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION		if HAVE_OBJTOOL
 	select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
 	select HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP		if X86_64
+	select HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME		if X86_64
 	select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO
 	select VDSO_GETRANDOM			if X86_64
-- 
2.48.1