On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 12:34:17PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > 4. Would a command line parameter be reasonable `disable_unwind`, so people > > could decrease their boot time with distribution kernels, and easily turn it > > back on, when they need a stacktrace without having to rebuild the Linux > > kernel? > > I think a boot cmdline option to disable ORC would be ok. However, > disabling ORC would need to fall back to the "guess" unwinder. > Otherwise it would make debugging impossible. That shouldn't be too > hard, but it would require restructuring the code a bit.
But I should also clarify that this option wouldn't be worth it. Sorting at build time is the way to go. -- Josh