On 4.2.2010 00:22, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:40 -0800, a...@linux-foundation.org wrote:
>> From: Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org>
>>
>> Better dwarf2 unwind information is a good thing, it allows better
>> debugging with kgdb and crash and helps systemtap.
>>
>> Commit 003086497f07f7f1e67c0c295e261740f822b377 ("Build with
>> -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm") disabled some CFI information globally to work
>> around a module loader bug on powerpc.
>>
>> But this disables the better unwind tables for all architectures, not just
>> powerpc. Move the workaround to powerpc and also add a suitable comment
>> that's it really a workaround.
>>
>> This improves dwarf2 unwind tables on x86 at least.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Kyle McMartin <k...@mcmartin.ca>
>
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
>
> Do you want me to carry that in powerpc-next ?
I can add it to kbuild-next. Changes to the top-level Makefile usually
go through kbuild, so it will avoid potential conflicts.
Michal
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