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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 49 |
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" |