From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unwind_init() takes 100 ms
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 08:13:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181009061301.GB116930@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181008173614.bchqq6unw65bc57x@treble>
* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 12:34:17PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > 4. Would a command line parameter be reasonable `disable_unwind`, so people
> > > could decrease their boot time with distribution kernels, and easily turn it
> > > back on, when they need a stacktrace without having to rebuild the Linux
> > > kernel?
> >
> > I think a boot cmdline option to disable ORC would be ok. However,
> > disabling ORC would need to fall back to the "guess" unwinder.
> > Otherwise it would make debugging impossible. That shouldn't be too
> > hard, but it would require restructuring the code a bit.
>
> But I should also clarify that this option wouldn't be worth it.
> Sorting at build time is the way to go.
Yep, very much so.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-09 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-08 9:52 unwind_init() takes 100 ms Paul Menzel
2018-10-08 17:34 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-10-08 17:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-10-09 6:13 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2018-10-09 6:12 ` Ingo Molnar
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