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Subject[PATCH v6 0/2] Kbuild: DWARF v5 support
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DWARF v5 is the latest standard of the DWARF debug info format.

DWARF5 wins significantly in terms of size and especially so when mixed
with compression (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED).

Link: http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF5.pdf

Patch 1 is a cleanup that lays the ground work and isn't DWARF
v5 specific.
Patch 2 implements Kconfig and Kbuild support for DWARFv5.

Changes from v5:
* Drop previous patch 1, it has been accepted into kbuild:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild.git/commit/?h=kbuild&id=3f4d8ce271c7082be75bacbcbd2048aa78ce2b44
* Trying to set -Wa,-gdwarf-4 in the earlier patch was the source of
additional complexity. Drop it that part of the patch. We can revisit
clang without the integrated assembler setting -Wa,-gdwarf-4 later.
That is a separate problem from generally supporting DWARF v5.
* Rework the final patch for clang without the integrated assembler.
-Wa,-gdwarf-5 is required for DWARF5 in that case otherwise GAS will
not accept the assembler directives clang produces from C code when
generating asm.

Changes from v4:
* drop set -e from script as per Nathan.
* add dependency on !CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF for DWARF v5 as per Sedat.
* Move LLVM_IAS=1 complexity from patch 2 to patch 3 as per Arvind and
Masahiro. Sorry it took me a few tries to understand the point (I
might still not), but it looks much cleaner this way. Sorry Nathan, I
did not carry forward your previous reviews as a result, but I would
appreciate if you could look again.
* Add Nathan's reviewed by tag to patch 1.
* Reword commit message for patch 3 to mention LLVM_IAS=1 and -gdwarf-5
binutils addition later, and BTF issue.
* I still happen to see a pahole related error spew for the combination
of:
* LLVM=1
* LLVM_IAS=1
* CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
* CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
Though they're non-fatal to the build. I'm not sure yet why removing
any one of the above prevents the warning spew. Maybe we'll need a v6.

Changes from v3:

Changes as per Arvind:
* only add -Wa,-gdwarf-5 for (LLVM=1|CC=clang)+LLVM_IAS=0 builds.
* add -gdwarf-5 to Kconfig shell script.
* only run Kconfig shell script for Clang.

Apologies to Sedat and Nathan; I appreciate previous testing/review, but
I did no carry forward your Tested-by and Reviewed-by tags, as the
patches have changed too much IMO.

Changes from v2:
* Drop two of the earlier patches that have been accepted already.
* Add measurements with GCC 10.2 to commit message.
* Update help text as per Arvind with help from Caroline.
* Improve case/wording between DWARF Versions as per Masahiro.

Changes from the RFC:
* split patch in 3 patch series, include Fangrui's patch, too.
* prefer `DWARF vX` format, as per Fangrui.
* use spaces between assignment in Makefile as per Masahiro.
* simplify setting dwarf-version-y as per Masahiro.
* indent `prompt` in Kconfig change as per Masahiro.
* remove explicit default in Kconfig as per Masahiro.
* add comments to test_dwarf5_support.sh.
* change echo in test_dwarf5_support.sh as per Masahiro.
* remove -u from test_dwarf5_support.sh as per Masahiro.
* add a -gdwarf-5 cc-option check to Kconfig as per Jakub.

Nick Desaulniers (2):
Kbuild: make DWARF version a choice
Kbuild: implement support for DWARF v5

Makefile | 16 ++++++++++--
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 6 ++++-
lib/Kconfig.debug | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh | 8 ++++++
4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh

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