Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4 v2
I found that a lot of unresolvable variables when using gdb on the
kernel become resolvable when dwarf4 is enabled. So add a Kconfig flag
to enable it.
It definitely increases the debug information size, but on the other
hand this isn't so bad when debug fusion is used.
v2: Use cc-option
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 910355d..d70f203 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -158,6 +158,15 @@
to know about the .dwo files and include them.
Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
+config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
+ bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
+ depends on DEBUG_INFO
+ help
+ Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
+ of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
+ But it significantly improves the success of resolving
+ variables in gdb on optimized code.
+
config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
default y