Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2018 07:27:45 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] objtool: move libelf detection to Kconfig from Makefile |
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* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> Since we switched the x86_64 default to the ORC unwinder, a lot of > people have switched over. But this patch will reverse (or at least > slow down) that trend, because almost nobody has the libelf devel > packaged installed by default. So over time, it will effectively make > frame pointers the default again in many cases. That's exactly what we > *don't* want to do. It will also cause people to accidentally re-enable > frame pointers when they thought they had ORC.
Yeah, agreed - turning ORC off like that is a non-starter.
Thanks,
Ingo
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