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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2014-07-30 20:50:19 +0200
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2014-07-30 22:56:04 +0200
commitbfaf2dd3509bc73bf4a4cea0e72472755ed860e2 (patch)
treee7ceb98352696ee3aa373a7559227a361983f31c
parent866ced950bcd54820c3e571229356adc2b2dd72e (diff)
Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4 v2
I found that a lot of unresolvable variables when using gdb on the kernel become resolvable when dwarf4 is enabled. So add a Kconfig flag to enable it. It definitely increases the debug information size, but on the other hand this isn't so bad when debug fusion is used. v2: Use cc-option Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
-rw-r--r--Makefile3
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug9
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e5a269465f9..2fd21a58f5c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -691,6 +691,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -g
endif
KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,-gdwarf-2
endif
+ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -gdwarf-4,)
+endif
ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly) \
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 910355da9d1..d70f203ce71 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -158,6 +158,15 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
to know about the .dwo files and include them.
Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
+config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
+ bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
+ depends on DEBUG_INFO
+ help
+ Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
+ of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
+ But it significantly improves the success of resolving
+ variables in gdb on optimized code.
+
config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
default y