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Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] Kbuild: make DWARF version a choice
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
        Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
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Modifies CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 to be a member of a choice. Adds an
explicit CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2, which is the default. Does so in a
way that's forward compatible with existing configs, and makes adding
future versions more straightforward.

Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
---
 Makefile          | 14 ++++++++------
 lib/Kconfig.debug | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a2ded5029084..2430e1ee7c44 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -826,12 +826,14 @@ else
 DEBUG_CFLAGS	+= -g
 endif
 
-ifneq ($(LLVM_IAS),1)
-KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= -Wa,-gdwarf-2
-endif
-
-ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
-DEBUG_CFLAGS	+= -gdwarf-4
+dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2) := 2
+dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4) := 4
+DEBUG_CFLAGS	+= -gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y)
+ifneq ($(dwarf-version-y)$(LLVM_IAS),21)
+# Binutils 2.35+ required for -gdwarf-4+ support.
+dwarf-aflag	:= $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y))
+DEBUG_CFLAGS	+= $(dwarf-aflag)
+KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= $(dwarf-aflag)
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 0c7380e36370..04719294a7a3 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -256,14 +256,25 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
 	  to know about the .dwo files and include them.
 	  Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
 
+choice
+	prompt "DWARF version"
+	help
+	  Which version of DWARF debug info to emit.
+
+config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2
+	bool "Generate DWARF Version 2 debuginfo"
+	help
+	  Generate DWARF v2 debug info.
+
 config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
-	bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
+	bool "Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo"
 	depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
 	help
-	  Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
-	  of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
-	  But it significantly improves the success of resolving
-	  variables in gdb on optimized code.
+	  Generate DWARF v4 debug info. This requires gcc 4.5+ and gdb 7.0+.
+	  It makes the debug information larger, but it significantly
+	  improves the success of resolving variables in gdb on optimized code.
+
+endchoice # "DWARF version"
 
 config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
 	bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
-- 
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