DWARF v5 is the latest standard of the DWARF debug info format. Feature detection of DWARF5 is onerous, especially given that we've removed $(AS), so we must query $(CC) for DWARF5 assembler directive support. GNU `as` only recently gained support for specifying -gdwarf-5. The DWARF version of a binary can be validated with: $ llvm-dwarfdump vmlinux | head -n 4 | grep version or $ readelf --debug-dump=info vmlinux 2>/dev/null | grep Version DWARF5 wins significantly in terms of size when mixed with compression (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED). 363M vmlinux.clang12.dwarf5.compressed 434M vmlinux.clang12.dwarf4.compressed 439M vmlinux.clang12.dwarf2.compressed 457M vmlinux.clang12.dwarf5 536M vmlinux.clang12.dwarf4 548M vmlinux.clang12.dwarf2 515M vmlinux.gcc10.2.dwarf5.compressed 599M vmlinux.gcc10.2.dwarf4.compressed 624M vmlinux.gcc10.2.dwarf2.compressed 630M vmlinux.gcc10.2.dwarf5 765M vmlinux.gcc10.2.dwarf4 809M vmlinux.gcc10.2.dwarf2 Though the quality of debug info is harder to quantify; size is not a proxy for quality. Jakub notes: All [GCC] 5.1 - 6.x did was start accepting -gdwarf-5 as experimental option that enabled some small DWARF subset (initially only a few DW_LANG_* codes newly added to DWARF5 drafts). Only GCC 7 (released after DWARF 5 has been finalized) started emitting DWARF5 section headers and got most of the DWARF5 changes in... Version check GCC so that we don't need to worry about the difference in command line args between GNU readelf and llvm-readelf/llvm-dwarfdump to validate the DWARF Version in the assembler feature detection script. Link: http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF5.pdf Suggested-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Caroline Tice <cmtice@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 1 + include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 6 +++++- lib/Kconfig.debug | 17 +++++++++++++++++ scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh | 9 +++++++++ 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100755 scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 656fff17b331..1067cfd98249 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -828,6 +828,7 @@ endif dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2) := 2 dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4) := 4 +dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5) := 5 DEBUG_CFLAGS += -gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y) ifneq ($(dwarf-version-y)$(LLVM_IAS),21) # Binutils 2.35+ required for -gdwarf-4+ support. diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 49944f00d2b3..37dc4110875e 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -843,7 +843,11 @@ .debug_types 0 : { *(.debug_types) } \ /* DWARF 5 */ \ .debug_macro 0 : { *(.debug_macro) } \ - .debug_addr 0 : { *(.debug_addr) } + .debug_addr 0 : { *(.debug_addr) } \ + .debug_line_str 0 : { *(.debug_line_str) } \ + .debug_loclists 0 : { *(.debug_loclists) } \ + .debug_rnglists 0 : { *(.debug_rnglists) } \ + .debug_str_offsets 0 : { *(.debug_str_offsets) } /* Stabs debugging sections. */ #define STABS_DEBUG \ diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index e80770fac4f0..60a4f5e27ada 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -273,6 +273,23 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 It makes the debug information larger, but it significantly improves the success of resolving variables in gdb on optimized code. +config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 + bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo" + depends on GCC_VERSION >= 50000 || CC_IS_CLANG + depends on CC_IS_GCC || $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS)) + help + Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35, gcc 5.0+ (gcc + 5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some + draft features until 7.0), and gdb 8.0+. + + Changes to the structure of debug info in Version 5 allow for around + 15-18% savings in resulting image and debug info section sizes as + compared to DWARF Version 4. DWARF Version 5 standardizes previous + extensions such as accelerators for symbol indexing and the format + for fission (.dwo/.dwp) files. Users may not want to select this + config if they rely on tooling that has not yet been updated to + support DWARF Version 5. + endchoice # "DWARF version" config DEBUG_INFO_BTF diff --git a/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh b/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh new file mode 100755 index 000000000000..142a1b5c7fa2 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/test_dwarf5_support.sh @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +# Test that assembler accepts -gdwarf-5 and .file 0 directives, which were bugs +# in binutils < 2.35. +# https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25612 +# https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25614 +set -e +echo '.file 0 "filename"' | $* -gdwarf-5 -Wa,-gdwarf-5 -c -x assembler -o /dev/null - -- 2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5eaa7-goog
