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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-09-04 09:52:57 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-09-04 09:52:57 -0700 |
commit | b0c79f49c343cda8954b3322984c32f258ca4ccb (patch) | |
tree | dd823d13683b7e6b0caebcaf3964df6150aee294 /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
parent | f213a6c84c1b4b396a0713ee33cff0e02ba8235f (diff) | |
parent | dd88a0a0c8615417fe6b4285769b5b772de87279 (diff) |
Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.
The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
(out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
with early versions. (knock on wood!)
But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
measurably:
With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
.text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.
The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.
Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
- but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
it the default unwinder on x86.
See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.
- Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
its removal. (Juergen Gross)
- Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)
- Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)
- Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '& 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 323cb065be5e..9c95aa417e9b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ config X86 select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS select ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS select ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH - select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if X86_64 select BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT @@ -158,6 +157,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_MEMBLOCK select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS + select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC select HAVE_NMI select HAVE_OPROFILE select HAVE_OPTPROBES @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_PERF_REGS select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API - select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE if X86_64 && FRAME_POINTER && STACK_VALIDATION + select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE if X86_64 && FRAME_POINTER_UNWINDER && STACK_VALIDATION select HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION if X86_64 select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK @@ -778,8 +778,6 @@ config KVM_DEBUG_FS Statistics are displayed in debugfs filesystem. Enabling this option may incur significant overhead. -source "arch/x86/lguest/Kconfig" - config PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting" depends on PARAVIRT |