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90 lines
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From: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:40:00 -0800
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Subject: [PATCH] Kbuild: Add an option to enable GCC VTA
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Due to recent codegen issues, gcc -fvar-tracking-assignments was
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unconditionally disabled in commit 2062afb4f804a ("Fix gcc-4.9.0
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miscompilation of load_balance() in scheduler"). However, this reduces
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the debuginfo coverage for variable locations, especially in inline
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functions. VTA is certainly not perfect either in those cases, but it
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is much better than without. With compiler versions that have fixed the
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codegen bugs, we would prefer to have the better details for SystemTap,
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and surely other debuginfo consumers like perf will benefit as well.
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This patch simply makes CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_VTA an option. I considered
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Frank and Linus's discussion of a cc-option-like -fcompare-debug test,
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but I'm convinced that a narrow test of an arch-specific codegen issue
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is not really useful. GCC has their own regression tests for this, so
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I'd suggest GCC_COMPARE_DEBUG=-fvar-tracking-assignments-toggle is more
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useful for kernel developers to test confidence.
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In fact, I ran into a couple more issues when testing for this patch[1],
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although neither of those had any codegen impact.
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[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140872
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With gcc-4.9.2-1.fc22, I can now build v3.18-rc5 with Fedora's i686 and
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x86_64 configs, and this is completely clean with GCC_COMPARE_DEBUG.
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Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
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Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
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Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
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Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
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Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
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Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
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---
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Makefile | 4 ++++
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lib/Kconfig.debug | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
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2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
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index dc20bcb9b271..e52d6c2d559c 100644
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--- a/Makefile
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+++ b/Makefile
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@@ -704,7 +704,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fomit-frame-pointer
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endif
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endif
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+ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_VTA
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+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fvar-tracking-assignments)
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+else
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KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-var-tracking-assignments)
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+endif
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ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
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ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
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index ba2b0c87e65b..390e4089c086 100644
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--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
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+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
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@@ -165,7 +165,23 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
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Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
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of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
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But it significantly improves the success of resolving
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- variables in gdb on optimized code.
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+ variables in gdb on optimized code. The gcc docs also
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+ recommend enabling -fvar-tracking-assignments for maximum
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+ benefit. (see DEBUG_INFO_VTA)
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+
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+config DEBUG_INFO_VTA
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+ bool "Enable var-tracking-assignments for debuginfo"
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+ depends on DEBUG_INFO
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+ help
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+ Enable gcc -fvar-tracking-assignments for improved debug
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+ information on variable locations in optimized code. Per
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+ gcc, DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 is recommended for best use of VTA.
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+
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+ VTA has been implicated in codegen bugs (gcc PR61801,
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+ PR61904), so this may deserve some caution. One can set
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+ GCC_COMPARE_DEBUG=-fvar-tracking-assignments-toggle in the
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+ environment to automatically compile everything both ways,
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+ generating an error if anything differs.
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config GDB_SCRIPTS
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bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
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