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authorHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-11-20 11:41:07 +0100
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2017-12-13 10:51:35 +0100
commitbc3703f21cec8a2ac6a64f6fb3686fbcb1ba1513 (patch)
tree8afb21635860b1ba73e8d5be04536b626cbb338b /arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
parenta5f1005517534aeb1fac20180badfbf0896c183c (diff)
s390/kernel: emit CFI data in .debug_frame and discard .eh_frame sections
Using perf probe and libdw on kernel modules failed to find CFI data for symbols. The CFI data is stored in the .eh_frame section. The elfutils libdw is not able to extract the CFI data correctly, because the .eh_frame section requires "non-simple" relocations for kernel modules. The suggestion is to avoid these "non-simple" relocations by emitting the CFI data in the .debug_frame section. Let gcc emit respective directives by specifying the -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables option. Using the .debug_frame section for CFI data, the .eh_frame section becomes unused and, thus, discard it for kernel and modules builds The vDSO requires the .eh_frame section and, hence, emit the CFI data in both, the .eh_frame and .debug_frame sections. See also discussion on elfutils/libdw bugzilla: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22452 Suggested-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index a049ff005f03..608cf2987d19 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -141,4 +141,7 @@ SECTIONS
/* Sections to be discarded */
DISCARDS
+ /DISCARD/ : {
+ *(.eh_frame)
+ }
}