On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:56:05AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > I'm building a ppc32 kernel, and noticed that after upgrading from gcc-7 > to gcc-8 all object files now end up having .eh_frame section. Since GCC 8, we enable -fasynchronous-unwind-tables by default for PowerPC. See https://gcc.gnu.org/r259298 . > For > vmlinux, that's not a problem, because they all get discarded in > arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S . However, they stick around in > modules, which doesn't seem to be useful - given that everything worked > just fine with gcc-7, and I don't see anything in the module loader that > handles .eh_frame. It is useful for debugging. Not many people debug the kernel like this, of course. Segher
