Hello! On 16.11.2020 8:03, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
Select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS to fix the following build error under CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP: CC arch/mips/kernel/signal.o {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:1775: Error: Unable to parse register name $fp scripts/Makefile.build:283: recipe for target 'arch/mips/kernel/signal.o' failed make[2]: *** [arch/mips/kernel/signal.o] Error 1 scripts/Makefile.build:500: recipe for target 'arch/mips/kernel' failed make[1]: *** [arch/mips/kernel] Error 2 Makefile:1799: recipe for target 'arch/mips' failed make: *** [arch/mips] Error 2 I think it is useful to get debugging information as described in the following texts: lib/Kconfig.debug config FRAME_POINTER bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" ... default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS help If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst This option inserts code to into the compiled executable which saves
So to or into? :-)
the frame information in registers or on the stack at different points which allows a debugger such as gdb to more accurately construct stack back traces while debugging the kernel. Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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