Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Add an option to enable GCC VTA

2015-04-24 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi, Josh - On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:40:02AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > [...] > Frank, did you rebase this against some newer tree or something? Yes; the lib/Kconfig.debug part didn't apply to current git. > Curious why you sent it again. At least as a patch-ping; the poor-debuginfo problems a

Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: Add an option to enable GCC VTA

2015-04-24 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > From: Josh Stone > > Due to isolated gcc codegen issues, gcc -fvar-tracking-assignments > was unconditionally disabled in commit 2062afb4f804 ("Fix gcc-4.9.0 > miscompilation of load_balance() in scheduler"). > > However, this reduces th

[PATCH] Kbuild: Add an option to enable GCC VTA

2015-04-23 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
From: Josh Stone Due to isolated gcc codegen issues, gcc -fvar-tracking-assignments was unconditionally disabled in commit 2062afb4f804 ("Fix gcc-4.9.0 miscompilation of load_balance() in scheduler"). However, this reduces the debuginfo coverage for variable locations, especially in inline func

[PATCH] Kbuild: Add an option to enable GCC VTA

2014-10-06 Thread Josh Stone
Due to recent codegen issues, gcc -fvar-tracking-assignments was unconditionally disabled in commit 2062afb4f804a ("Fix gcc-4.9.0 miscompilation of load_balance() in scheduler"). However, this reduces the debuginfo coverage for variable locations, especially in inline functions. VTA is certainly