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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-07 11:05:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-07 11:18:59 +0100 |
| commit | da4276b8299a6544dc41ac2485d3ffca5811b3fb (patch) | |
| tree | 8225c30e900cadb4b5dee86a4f70b189cceb3c12 | |
| parent | 0936912274af78a21fd8d54c3f94a50a285cf7f9 (diff) | |
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x86: offer frame pointers in all build modes
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS=y results in much better debug info for the
kernel (clear and precise backtraces), with the only drawback being
a ~1% increase in kernel size.
So offer it unconditionally and enable it by default.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 16 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 862adb9bf0d4..73f7fe8fd4d1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT select HAVE_KPROBES select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB + select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS select HAVE_KRETPROBES select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 2e75478e9c69..2d0f14490174 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -566,14 +566,14 @@ config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS config FRAME_POINTER bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ - (X86 || CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \ - AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) - default y if DEBUG_INFO && UML - help - If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger - and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on - some architectures or if you use external debuggers. - If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N. + (CRIS || M68K || M68KNOMMU || FRV || UML || S390 || \ + AVR32 || SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || \ + ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS + default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS + help + If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly + larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information + in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds" |