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Rao" Subject: Re: eh_frame confusion To: Rasmus Villemoes , Segher Boessenkool , Michael Ellerman References: <3b00b45f-74b5-13e3-9a98-c3d6b3bb7286@rasmusvillemoes.dk> <20200302124442.GI22482@gate.crashing.org> In-Reply-To: <20200302124442.GI22482@gate.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: astroid/v0.15-13-gb675b421 (https://github.com/astroidmail/astroid) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 20030217-0012-0000-0000-0000038C5B92 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 20030217-0013-0000-0000-000021C90F71 Message-Id: <1583169014.zvau4om8mi.naveen@linux.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.138, 18.0.572 definitions=2020-03-02_06:2020-03-02, 2020-03-02 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 mlxscore=0 phishscore=0 impostorscore=0 spamscore=0 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxlogscore=879 clxscore=1015 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 priorityscore=1501 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2001150001 definitions=main-2003020115 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , LKML , Linux Kbuild mailing list Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: >> I'm building a ppc32 kernel, and noticed that after upgrading from gcc-7 >> to gcc-8 all object files now end up having .eh_frame section. >=20 > Since GCC 8, we enable -fasynchronous-unwind-tables by default for > PowerPC. See https://gcc.gnu.org/r259298 . >=20 >> For >> vmlinux, that's not a problem, because they all get discarded in >> arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S . However, they stick around in >> modules, which doesn't seem to be useful - given that everything worked >> just fine with gcc-7, and I don't see anything in the module loader that >> handles .eh_frame. >=20 > It is useful for debugging. Not many people debug the kernel like this, > of course. I'm trying to understand if we need that. Other architectures seems to=20 pass -fasynchronous-unwind-tables only for the vdso, but disable it for=20 the kernel build. I suppose we can do the same. If using -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables, would crash/perf have=20 problems? - Naveen