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[v9,1/3] vmlinux.lds.h: add DWARF v5 sections

Message ID 20210205202220.2748551-2-ndesaulniers@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Kbuild: DWARF v5 support | expand

Commit Message

Nick Desaulniers Feb. 5, 2021, 8:22 p.m. UTC 
We expect toolchains to produce these new debug info sections as part of
DWARF v5. Add explicit placements to prevent the linker warnings from
--orphan-section=warn.

Compilers may produce such sections with explicit -gdwarf-5, or based on
the implicit default version of DWARF when -g is used via DEBUG_INFO.
This implicit default changes over time, and has changed to DWARF v5
with GCC 11.

.debug_sup was mentioned in review, but without compilers producing it
today, let's wait to add it until it becomes necessary.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922707
Reported-by: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Andrew Morton Feb. 6, 2021, midnight UTC | #1 
On Fri,  5 Feb 2021 12:22:18 -0800 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:

> We expect toolchains to produce these new debug info sections as part of
> DWARF v5. Add explicit placements to prevent the linker warnings from
> --orphan-section=warn.
> 
> Compilers may produce such sections with explicit -gdwarf-5, or based on
> the implicit default version of DWARF when -g is used via DEBUG_INFO.
> This implicit default changes over time, and has changed to DWARF v5
> with GCC 11.
> 
> .debug_sup was mentioned in review, but without compilers producing it
> today, let's wait to add it until it becomes necessary.
> 

There isn't anything in this changelog which explains why a -stable
backport was requested?  Or is there?  Irritating linker warnings? 
More than that?
Nick Desaulniers Feb. 6, 2021, 12:02 a.m. UTC | #2 
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 4:00 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri,  5 Feb 2021 12:22:18 -0800 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> > We expect toolchains to produce these new debug info sections as part of
> > DWARF v5. Add explicit placements to prevent the linker warnings from
> > --orphan-section=warn.
> >
> > Compilers may produce such sections with explicit -gdwarf-5, or based on
> > the implicit default version of DWARF when -g is used via DEBUG_INFO.
> > This implicit default changes over time, and has changed to DWARF v5
> > with GCC 11.
> >
> > .debug_sup was mentioned in review, but without compilers producing it
> > today, let's wait to add it until it becomes necessary.
> >
>
> There isn't anything in this changelog which explains why a -stable
> backport was requested?  Or is there?  Irritating linker warnings?
> More than that?

Users adopting GCC 11 will start to see warnings from the linker due
to --orphan-section=warn when building the branches of the stable
tree.  Stable has IME accepted patches for permitting newer toolchains
to continue to compile warning free.
Mark Wielaard Feb. 6, 2021, 3:02 p.m. UTC | #3 
Hi Nick,

On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 12:22 -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> We expect toolchains to produce these new debug info sections as part of
> DWARF v5. Add explicit placements to prevent the linker warnings from
> --orphan-section=warn.
> 
> Compilers may produce such sections with explicit -gdwarf-5, or based on
> the implicit default version of DWARF when -g is used via DEBUG_INFO.
> This implicit default changes over time, and has changed to DWARF v5
> with GCC 11.
> 
> .debug_sup was mentioned in review, but without compilers producing it
> today, let's wait to add it until it becomes necessary.

I don't think that will be necessary. .debug_sup is for Dwarf
Supplemental file producers like dwz. Those would run after the linker.

> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922707
> Reported-by: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
> Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> index 34b7e0d2346c..1e7cde4bd3f9 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> @@ -842,8 +842,13 @@
>  		/* DWARF 4 */						\
>  		.debug_types	0 : { *(.debug_types) }			\
>  		/* DWARF 5 */						\
> +		.debug_addr	0 : { *(.debug_addr) }			\
> +		.debug_line_str	0 : { *(.debug_line_str) }		\
> +		.debug_loclists	0 : { *(.debug_loclists) }		\
>  		.debug_macro	0 : { *(.debug_macro) }			\
> -		.debug_addr	0 : { *(.debug_addr) }
> +		.debug_names	0 : { *(.debug_names) }			\
> +		.debug_rnglists	0 : { *(.debug_rnglists) }		\
> +		.debug_str_offsets	0 : { *(.debug_str_offsets) }
>  
>  /* Stabs debugging sections. */
>  #define STABS_DEBUG							\

Looks good to me.

Cheers,

Mark
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diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 34b7e0d2346c..1e7cde4bd3f9 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -842,8 +842,13 @@ 
 		/* DWARF 4 */						\
 		.debug_types	0 : { *(.debug_types) }			\
 		/* DWARF 5 */						\
+		.debug_addr	0 : { *(.debug_addr) }			\
+		.debug_line_str	0 : { *(.debug_line_str) }		\
+		.debug_loclists	0 : { *(.debug_loclists) }		\
 		.debug_macro	0 : { *(.debug_macro) }			\
-		.debug_addr	0 : { *(.debug_addr) }
+		.debug_names	0 : { *(.debug_names) }			\
+		.debug_rnglists	0 : { *(.debug_rnglists) }		\
+		.debug_str_offsets	0 : { *(.debug_str_offsets) }
 
 /* Stabs debugging sections. */
 #define STABS_DEBUG							\