Confusing help regarding single-depth WCHAN output

["Rogério Brito" <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

Hi.

I noticed this some releases ago, but only now I was perusing the kernel
with a little more attention and got very curious. When doing a "make
menuconfig" on an amd64 system, I get the following message:

,----
| Single-depth WCHAN output
| CONFIG_SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER:
| 
|  Calculate simpler /proc/<PID>/wchan values. If this option
|  is disabled then wchan values will recurse back to the
|  caller function. This provides more accurate wchan values,
|  at the expense of slightly more scheduling overhead.
| 
|  If in doubt, say "Y".
| 
|  Symbol: SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER [=y]
|  Prompt: Single-depth WCHAN output
|    Defined at arch/x86/Kconfig:441
|    Depends on: X86
|    Location:
|      -> Processor type and features
`----

Is the WCHAN option related to omitting a frame pointer? If yes, how
could this be written in a more detailed way?


Thanks for any comments, Rogério Brito.

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