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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [V3 PATCH] arm64: remove redundant FRAME_POINTER kconfig option and force to select it
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:37:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151110103752.GH21606@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447092595-12644-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org>

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:09:55AM -0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> FRAME_POINTER is defined in lib/Kconfig.debug, it is unnecessary to redefine
> it in arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug. Actually, the one defined in arm64 directory
> is never used.

That's not true since the arm64 definition seems to take precedence.

> This adds a dependency on DEBUG_KERNEL for building with frame pointers.

It doesn't because arm64 selects ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS.

> ARM64 depends on frame pointer to get correct stack backtrace and need
> FRAME_POINTER kconfig option enabled all the time.
> However, currect implementation makes it could be disabled, so force it
> to be selected by ARM64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>

Patch applied but I changed the commit log slightly. Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-10 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-09 18:09 Yang Shi
2015-11-10 10:37 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2015-11-10 11:09   ` yalin wang
2015-11-10 11:35     ` Catalin Marinas
2015-11-10 11:43       ` yalin wang
2015-11-10 11:54         ` Will Deacon
2015-11-10 16:51   ` Shi, Yang

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