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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> | 2017-07-24 18:36:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-07-26 13:18:20 +0200 |
| commit | ee9f8fce99640811b2b8e79d0d1dbe8bab69ba67 (patch) | |
| tree | be03fe86edb9ebd70b4d29ca2bc8a4d972ff6644 /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | 1ee6f00d1164955b7bdadd36fc0f2736754784d9 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 781521b7cf9e..7ccf26a427cb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_MEMBLOCK select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS + select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC select HAVE_NMI select HAVE_OPROFILE select HAVE_OPTPROBES |