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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-07-26 13:18:20 +0200
commitee9f8fce99640811b2b8e79d0d1dbe8bab69ba67 (patch)
treebe03fe86edb9ebd70b4d29ca2bc8a4d972ff6644 /lib
parent1ee6f00d1164955b7bdadd36fc0f2736754784d9 (diff)
downloadlinux-ee9f8fce99640811b2b8e79d0d1dbe8bab69ba67.tar.bz2
x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder
Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y. It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework. It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and .orc_unwind_ip sections. For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to profiling workloads like perf. Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas: splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com [ Extended the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 98fe715522e8..0f0d019ffb99 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ config STACK_VALIDATION
pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
+ This is also a prerequisite for generation of ORC unwind data, which
+ is needed for CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER.
+
For more information, see
tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.