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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Hendrik Brueckner
2017-11-20 11:41:07 +01:00
committed by Martin Schwidefsky
parent a5f1005517
commit bc3703f21c
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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
#ifndef _ASM_S390_DWARF_H
#define _ASM_S390_DWARF_H
#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
#ifndef BUILD_VDSO
/*
* Emit CFI data in .debug_frame sections and not in .eh_frame
* sections. The .eh_frame CFI is used for runtime unwind
* information that is not being used. Hence, vmlinux.lds.S
* can discard the .eh_frame sections.
*/
.cfi_sections .debug_frame
#else
/*
* For vDSO, emit CFI data in both, .eh_frame and .debug_frame
* sections.
*/
.cfi_sections .eh_frame, .debug_frame
#endif
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* _ASM_S390_DWARF_H */