Re: CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and module vermagic

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Christopher Friesen wrote:

>
> I've had a case reported to me of someone loading a module without frame
> pointers into kernel compiled with frame pointers enabled.
>
> 1) Is this allowed?  I didn't think so, but I wanted to double check.
> 2) If not, would it make sense to include this in the module vermagic?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris

Frame-pointers don't affect calling conventions, only the manner
at which passed parameters are retrieved from the stack by the
called procedures. Plus, the register ebp (BP), the frame-pointer
register, is "precious" and is preserved across calls in GCC 'C'.
So, you can intermix -fno-frame-pointer code at will. It is possible
that a kernel-mode debugger may improperly display local variables,
but normally these things are not used in kernel development anyway.

So yes you can intermix such code. There is no need to flag it
in vermagic.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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