From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This is an alternative approach to lower the overhead of debug info (as we discussed a few days ago) gcc 4.7+ and newer binutils have a new "split debug info" debug info model where the debug info is only written once into central ".dwo" files. This avoids having to copy it around multiple times, from the object files to the final executable. It lowers the disk space requirements. In addition it defaults to compressed debug data. More details here: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DebugFission This patch adds a new option to enable it. It has to be an option, because it'll undoubtedly break everyone's debuginfo packaging scheme. gdb/objdump/etc. all still work, if you have new enough versions. I don't see big compile wins (maybe a second or two faster or so), but the object dirs with debuginfo get significantly smaller. My standard kernel config (slightly bigger than defconfig) shrinks from 2.9G disk space to 1.1G objdir (with non reduced debuginfo). I presume if you are IO limited the compile time difference will be larger. Only problem I've seen so far is that it doesn't play well with older versions of ccache (apparently fixed, see https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10005) v2: various fixes from Dirk Gouders. Improve commit message slightly. v3: Fix clean rules and improve Kconfig slightly v4: Fix merge error in last version (Sam Ravnborg) Clarify description that it mainly helps disk size. Cc: Dirk Gouders <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: mmarek@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- .gitignore | 1 + Makefile | 5 +++++ lib/Kconfig.debug | 15 +++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index f4c0b09..e213b27 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ *.gcno modules.builtin Module.symvers +*.dwo # # Top-level generic files diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index f3c543d..6a717cd 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -689,7 +689,11 @@ endif endif ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO +ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -gsplit-dwarf, -g) +else KBUILD_CFLAGS += -g +endif KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,-gdwarf-2 endif @@ -1377,6 +1381,7 @@ clean: $(clean-dirs) @find $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD), $(KBUILD_EXTMOD), .) $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \ \( -name '*.[oas]' -o -name '*.ko' -o -name '.*.cmd' \ -o -name '*.ko.*' \ + -o -name '*.dwo' \ -o -name '.*.d' -o -name '.*.tmp' -o -name '*.mod.c' \ -o -name '*.symtypes' -o -name 'modules.order' \ -o -name modules.builtin -o -name '.tmp_*.o.*' \ diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 7a638aa..0360468 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -143,6 +143,21 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. Only works with newer gcc versions. +config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT + bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" + depends on DEBUG_INFO + help + Generate debug info into separate .dwo files. This significantly + reduces the build directory size for builds with DEBUG_INFO, + because it stores the information only once on disk in .dwo + files instead of multiple times in object files and executables. + In addition the debug information is also compressed. + + Requires recent gcc (4.7+) and recent gdb/binutils. + Any tool that packages or reads debug information would need + to know about the .dwo files and include them. + Incompatible with older versions of ccache. + config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED bool "Enable __deprecated logic" default y -- 1.8.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
