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| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 18 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh | 8 |
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -832,6 +832,7 @@ endif ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4) := 4 +dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5) := 5 DEBUG_CFLAGS += -gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y) endif diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 3555edcfd4ab..ba8596464596 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -282,6 +282,24 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 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 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 diff --git a/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh b/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh new file mode 100755 index 000000000000..c46e2456b47a --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +# Test that the assembler doesn't need -Wa,-gdwarf-5 when presented with DWARF +# v5 input, such as `.file 0` and `md5 0x00`. Should be fixed in GNU binutils +# 2.35.2. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25611 +echo '.file 0 "filename" md5 0x7a0b65214090b6693bd1dc24dd248245' | \ + $* -gdwarf-5 -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -c -x assembler -o /dev/null - |