Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] Kbuild: make DWARF version a choice

["Fāng-ruì Sòng" <maskray@google.com>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:05 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 9:53 AM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built
> Linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > Modifies CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 to be a member of a choice. Adds an
> > explicit CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2, which is the default. Does so in a
> > way that's forward compatible with existing configs, and makes adding
> > future versions more straightforward.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
> > Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > ---
> >  Makefile          | 14 ++++++++------
> >  lib/Kconfig.debug | 19 +++++++++++++++----
> >  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > index 75b1a3dcbf30..e23786a4c1c7 100644
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -826,12 +826,14 @@ else
> >  DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -g
> >  endif
> >
> > -ifndef LLVM_IAS
> > -KBUILD_AFLAGS  += -Wa,-gdwarf-2
> > -endif
> > -
> > -ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
> > -DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -gdwarf-4
> > +dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2) := 2
> > +dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4) := 4
> > +DEBUG_CFLAGS   += -gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y)
> > +ifneq ($(dwarf-version-y)$(LLVM_IAS),21)
> > +# Binutils 2.35+ required for -gdwarf-4+ support.
> > +dwarf-aflag    := $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y))
> > +DEBUG_CFLAGS   += $(dwarf-aflag)
>
> This changes the behavior.
>
> For the Dwarf-2 case,
>
> Previously, -gdwarf-2 was passed to $(CC),
> so the debug info was generated by gcc.
>
> Now, -Wa,-gdwarf-2 is passed to $(CC).
> -gdwarf-2 is handled by GNU as.
> So, the source info points to /tmp/<hash>.s
> instead of the original .c file.
>
>
>
> Handling the Dwarf capability is very complicated.
>
> Are you still working for v3?
>
>
>
> > +KBUILD_AFLAGS  += $(dwarf-aflag)
> >  endif
> >
> >  ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
> > diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > index 83a860126897..03c494eefabd 100644
> > --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > @@ -256,14 +256,25 @@ 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_DWARF2
> > +       bool "Generate DWARF v2 debuginfo"
> > +       help
> > +         Generate DWARF v2 debug info.
> > +
> >  config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
> >         bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
> >         depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
> >         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 v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+.
> > +         It makes the debug information larger, but it significantly
> > +         improves the success of resolving variables in gdb on optimized code.
> > +
> > +endchoice # "DWARF version"
> >
> >  config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
> >         bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
> > --
> > 2.29.1.341.ge80a0c044ae-goog


We can bump -Wa,-gdwarf-2 to -Wa,-gdwarf-3 since GNU actually emits
DWARF v3 DW_AT_ranges (see
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26850 )
This can avoid the `warning: DWARF2 only supports one section per
compilation unit` warning for Clang.

Deleting -Wa,-gdwarf-2 also sounds good to me if people can verify
their debugging experience is not regressed (I believe it is useless).


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