Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Fix false-positive build warnings for ARCH=ia64 builds

 - Optimize dictionary size for module compression with xz

 - Check the compiler and linker versions in Kconfig

 - Fix misuse of extra-y

 - Support DWARF v5 debug info

 - Clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 because stable releases 4.4.x and 4.9.x
   exceeded the limit

 - Add generic syscall{tbl,hdr}.sh for cleanups across arches

 - Minor cleanups of genksyms

 - Minor cleanups of Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (38 commits)
  initramfs: Remove redundant dependency of RD_ZSTD on BLK_DEV_INITRD
  kbuild: remove deprecated 'always' and 'hostprogs-y/m'
  kbuild: parse C= and M= before changing the working directory
  kbuild: reuse this-makefile to define abs_srctree
  kconfig: unify rule of config, menuconfig, nconfig, gconfig, xconfig
  kconfig: omit --oldaskconfig option for 'make config'
  kconfig: fix 'invalid option' for help option
  kconfig: remove dead code in conf_askvalue()
  kconfig: clean up nested if-conditionals in check_conf()
  kconfig: Remove duplicate call to sym_get_string_value()
  Makefile: Remove # characters from compiler string
  Makefile: reuse CC_VERSION_TEXT
  kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig
  kbuild: remove ld-version macro
  scripts: add generic syscallhdr.sh
  scripts: add generic syscalltbl.sh
  arch: syscalls: remove $(srctree)/ prefix from syscall tables
  arch: syscalls: add missing FORCE and fix 'targets' to make if_changed work
  gen_compile_commands: prune some directories
  kbuild: simplify access to the kernel's version
  ...

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 5ea0c1773b0a..f9febffffc21 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -256,14 +256,51 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
 	  to know about the .dwo files and include them.
 	  Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
 
+choice
+	prompt "DWARF version"
+	help
+	  Which version of DWARF debug info to emit.
+
+config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
+	bool "Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version"
+	help
+	  The implicit default version of DWARF debug info produced by a
+	  toolchain changes over time.
+
+	  This can break consumers of the debug info that haven't upgraded to
+	  support newer revisions, and prevent testing newer versions, but
+	  those should be less common scenarios.
+
+	  If unsure, say Y.
+
 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
-	bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
-	depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
+	bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo"
+	help
+	  Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+.
+
+	  If you have consumers of DWARF debug info that are not ready for
+	  newer revisions of DWARF, you may wish to choose this or have your
+	  config select this.
+
+config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5
+	bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo"
+	depends on GCC_VERSION >= 50000 || CC_IS_CLANG
+	depends on CC_IS_GCC || $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS))
+	depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF
 	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.
+	  Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc
+	  5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some
+	  draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+.
+
+	  Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around
+	  15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as
+	  compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous
+	  extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format
+	  for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this
+	  config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to
+	  support DWARF Version 5.
+
+endchoice # "DWARF version"
 
 config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
 	bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"