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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-07-26 13:18:20 +0200
commitee9f8fce99640811b2b8e79d0d1dbe8bab69ba67 (patch)
treebe03fe86edb9ebd70b4d29ca2bc8a4d972ff6644 /arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
parent1ee6f00d1164955b7bdadd36fc0f2736754784d9 (diff)
x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder
Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y. It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework. It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and .orc_unwind_ip sections. For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to profiling workloads like perf. Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas: splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com [ Extended the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index 353ed09f5fba..dc10ec6ead6e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -355,4 +355,29 @@ config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
The current power state can be read from
/sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state
+config ORC_UNWINDER
+ bool "ORC unwinder"
+ depends on X86_64
+ select STACK_VALIDATION
+ ---help---
+ This option enables the ORC (Oops Rewind Capability) unwinder for
+ unwinding kernel stack traces. It uses a custom data format which is
+ a simplified version of the DWARF Call Frame Information standard.
+
+ This unwinder is more accurate across interrupt entry frames than the
+ frame pointer unwinder. It can also enable a 5-10% performance
+ improvement across the entire kernel if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is
+ disabled.
+
+ Enabling this option will increase the kernel's runtime memory usage
+ by roughly 2-4MB, depending on your kernel config.
+
+config FRAME_POINTER_UNWINDER
+ def_bool y
+ depends on !ORC_UNWINDER && FRAME_POINTER
+
+config GUESS_UNWINDER
+ def_bool y
+ depends on !ORC_UNWINDER && !FRAME_POINTER
+
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