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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2017-07-25 08:54:24 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-07-26 14:05:36 +0200
commit81d387190039c14edac8de2b3ec789beb899afd9 (patch)
tree73d1c44e4b1b212457e9cea254ee7d69ccc4ba75 /arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
parenta34a766ff96d9e88572e35a45066279e40a85d84 (diff)
x86/kconfig: Consolidate unwinders into multiple choice selection
There are three mutually exclusive unwinders. Make that more obvious by combining them into a multiple-choice selection: CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER_UNWINDER CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER CONFIG_GUESS_UNWINDER (if CONFIG_EXPERT=y) Frame pointers are still the default (for now). The old CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER option is still used in some arch-independent places, so keep it around, but make it invisible to the user on x86 - it's now selected by CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER_UNWINDER=y. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 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/20170725135424.zukjmgpz3plf5pmt@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig.debug47
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index 268a318f9439..93bbb31456fd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -355,9 +355,32 @@ config PUNIT_ATOM_DEBUG
The current power state can be read from
/sys/kernel/debug/punit_atom/dev_power_state
+choice
+ prompt "Choose kernel unwinder"
+ default FRAME_POINTER_UNWINDER
+ ---help---
+ This determines which method will be used for unwinding kernel stack
+ traces for panics, oopses, bugs, warnings, perf, /proc/<pid>/stack,
+ livepatch, lockdep, and more.
+
+config FRAME_POINTER_UNWINDER
+ bool "Frame pointer unwinder"
+ select FRAME_POINTER
+ ---help---
+ This option enables the frame pointer unwinder for unwinding kernel
+ stack traces.
+
+ The unwinder itself is fast and it uses less RAM than the ORC
+ unwinder, but the kernel text size will grow by ~3% and the kernel's
+ overall performance will degrade by roughly 5-10%.
+
+ This option is recommended if you want to use the livepatch
+ consistency model, as this is currently the only way to get a
+ reliable stack trace (CONFIG_HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE).
+
config ORC_UNWINDER
bool "ORC unwinder"
- depends on X86_64 && !FRAME_POINTER
+ depends on X86_64
select STACK_VALIDATION
---help---
This option enables the ORC (Oops Rewind Capability) unwinder for
@@ -371,12 +394,22 @@ config ORC_UNWINDER
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
+ bool "Guess unwinder"
+ depends on EXPERT
+ ---help---
+ This option enables the "guess" unwinder for unwinding kernel stack
+ traces. It scans the stack and reports every kernel text address it
+ finds. Some of the addresses it reports may be incorrect.
+
+ While this option often produces false positives, it can still be
+ useful in many cases. Unlike the other unwinders, it has no runtime
+ overhead.
+
+endchoice
+
+config FRAME_POINTER
+ depends on !ORC_UNWINDER && !GUESS_UNWINDER
+ bool
endmenu