Re: ARM: CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

Kevin Hilman
2009-05-13T16:37:10Z

"Hunter, Jon" <jon-hunter@ti.com> writes:

> Hi Kevin,
>
>> Did a similar patch for ARM get you a booting kernel using 2007q3?
>
> Yes, the changes needed are the following to get it booting with 2007q3 on the omap3430sdp were the following. Unfortunately it took 4 hours to figure this out and so wanted to share.
>
> Do you think that the below change should be incorporate in the arch/arm/Kconfig?
>

Yes. Do you mind sending a patch to linux-arm-kernel?

Kevin

>
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 079aa6a..c61bafb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ config ARM
> select HAVE_KRETPROBES if (HAVE_KPROBES)
> select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if (!XIP_KERNEL)
> select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
> + select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
> help
> The ARM series is a line of low-power-consumption RISC chip designs
> licensed by ARM Ltd and targeted at embedded applications and
> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/omap_3430sdp_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/omap_3430sdp_defconfig
> index b686f34..1bff450 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/configs/omap_3430sdp_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/omap_3430sdp_defconfig
> @@ -1387,6 +1387,7 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is not set
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST is not set
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_SG is not set
> +CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS=y
> CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
> # CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY is not set
> # CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST is not set