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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> | 2017-07-25 01:36:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-07-26 13:18:20 +0200 |
| commit | a34a766ff96d9e88572e35a45066279e40a85d84 (patch) | |
| tree | 81250d132f2c574d0e43e8b575b996265b21278a /arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder (diff) | |
| download | linux-a34a766ff96d9e88572e35a45066279e40a85d84.tar.xz linux-a34a766ff96d9e88572e35a45066279e40a85d84.zip | |
x86/kconfig: Make it easier to switch to the new ORC unwinder
A couple of Kconfig changes which make it much easier to switch to the
new CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER:
1) Remove x86 dependencies on CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER for lockdep,
latencytop, and fault injection. x86 has a 'guess' unwinder which
just scans the stack for kernel text addresses. It's not 100%
accurate but in many cases it's good enough. This allows those users
who don't want the text overhead of the frame pointer or ORC
unwinders to still use these features. More importantly, this also
makes it much more straightforward to disable frame pointers.
2) Make CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER depend on !CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. While it
would be possible to have both enabled, it doesn't really make sense
to do so. So enforce a sane configuration to prevent the user from
making a dumb mistake.
With these changes, when you disable CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, "make
oldconfig" will ask if you want to enable CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9985fb91ce5005fe33ea5cc2a20f14bd33c61d03.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index dc10ec6ead6e..268a318f9439 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG config ORC_UNWINDER bool "ORC unwinder" - depends on X86_64 + depends on X86_64 && !FRAME_POINTER select STACK_VALIDATION ---help--- This option enables the ORC (Oops Rewind Capability) unwinder for @@ -365,9 +365,8 @@ config ORC_UNWINDER a simplified version of the DWARF Call Frame Information standard. This unwinder is more accurate across interrupt entry frames than the - frame pointer unwinder. It can also enable a 5-10% performance - improvement across the entire kernel if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is - disabled. + frame pointer unwinder. It also enables a 5-10% performance + improvement across the entire kernel compared to frame pointers. Enabling this option will increase the kernel's runtime memory usage by roughly 2-4MB, depending on your kernel config. |