[PATCH v4 6/6] x86-64: Turn off -pg and turn on -foptimize-sibling-calls for vDSO

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Mon May 16 2011 - 12:02:15 EST


The vDSO isn't part of the kernel, so profiling and kernel
backtraces don't really matter.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/vdso/Makefile | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
index a651861..bef0bc9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
@@ -37,11 +37,24 @@ $(obj)/%.so: OBJCOPYFLAGS := -S
$(obj)/%.so: $(obj)/%.so.dbg FORCE
$(call if_changed,objcopy)

+#
+# Don't omit frame pointers for ease of userspace debugging, but do
+# optimize sibling calls.
+#
CFL := $(PROFILING) -mcmodel=small -fPIC -O2 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -m64 \
- $(filter -g%,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
+ $(filter -g%,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector) \
+ -fno-omit-frame-pointer -foptimize-sibling-calls

$(vobjs): KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CFL)

+#
+# vDSO code runs in userspace and -pg doesn't help with profiling anyway.
+#
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vdso-note.o = -pg
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vclock_gettime.o = -pg
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgetcpu.o = -pg
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vvar.o = -pg
+
targets += vdso-syms.lds
obj-$(VDSO64-y) += vdso-syms.lds

--
1.7.5.1

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