[PATCH] x86: Use .cfi_sections

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 00:43:42 EST


The following changes since commit 6a251b0ab67989f468f4cb65179e0cf40cf8c295:
Linus Torvalds (1):
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../sameo/mfd-2.6

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland.git x86/cfi

Roland McGrath (1):
x86: Use .cfi_sections

arch/x86/Makefile | 5 +++--
arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


Thanks,
Roland
---
[PATCH] x86: Use .cfi_sections

The newer assemblers support the .cfi_sections directive so we can put
the CFI from .S files into the .debug_frame section that is preserved
in unstripped vmlinux and in separate debuginfo, rather than the
.eh_frame section that is now discarded by vmlinux.lds.S.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Makefile | 5 +++--
arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 0a43dc5..8aa1b59 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@ sp-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := rsp
cfi := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_rel_offset $(sp-y)$(comma)0\n.cfi_endproc,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1)
# is .cfi_signal_frame supported too?
cfi-sigframe := $(call as-instr,.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_signal_frame\n.cfi_endproc,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1)
-KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe)
+cfi-sections := $(call as-instr,.cfi_sections .debug_frame,-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1)
+KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections)

LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h
index ae6253a..733f7e9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h
@@ -34,6 +34,18 @@
#define CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME
#endif

+#if defined(CONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS) && defined(__ASSEMBLY__)
+ /*
+ * Emit CFI data in .debug_frame sections, not .eh_frame sections.
+ * The latter we currently just discard since we don't do DWARF
+ * unwinding at runtime. So only the offline DWARF information is
+ * useful to anyone. Note we should not use this directive if this
+ * file is used in the vDSO assembly, or if vmlinux.lds.S gets
+ * changed so it doesn't discard .eh_frame.
+ */
+ .cfi_sections .debug_frame
+#endif
+
#else

/*
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