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From: bekars <bekars@gmail.com>
To: hellogcc@freelists.org
Cc: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [hellogcc] Re: [PATCH] Built kernel without -O2 option
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimGn53kwcTYe41Y-fwTQ0vzShLCr3LAr8yW9p=J@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CF3762B.9010102@loongson.cn>

这个好像不行,我在2.6.35.4内核上编译,报错:

  ./mm.sh -Wp,-MD,arch/x86/kernel/.entry_32.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/include
-I/home/baiyu/Melon/RSW3/base_system/linux.DEV/LKGDB/arch/x86/include
-Iinclude  -include include/generated/autoconf.h -D__KERNEL__
-D__ASSEMBLY__ -m32 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1
-DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1  -gdwarf-2        -c -o
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.o arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
/home/baiyu/Melon/RSW3/base_system/linux.DEV/LKGDB/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h:
Assembler messages:
/home/baiyu/Melon/RSW3/base_system/linux.DEV/LKGDB/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h:46:
Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.cfi_sections'
/home/baiyu/Melon/RSW3/base_system/linux.DEV/LKGDB/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h:
Assembler messages:
/home/baiyu/Melon/RSW3/base_system/linux.DEV/LKGDB/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h:46:
Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.cfi_sections'
/home/baiyu/Melon/RSW3/base_system/linux.DEV/LKGDB/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h:
Assembler messages:
/home/baiyu/Melon/RSW3/base_system/linux.DEV/LKGDB/arch/x86/include/asm/dwarf2.h:46:
Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.cfi_sections'
make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
make: *** [arch/x86] Error 2



在 2010年11月29日 下午5:45,乔崇 <qiaochong@loongson.cn> 写道:
> Hui Zhu 写道:
>> In this way, you will got a lot of error.
>>
>> Hui
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 16:41, 乔崇 <qiaochong@loongson.cn> wrote:
>>
>>> does not need change kernel,just write a shell mycc as bellow:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> gcc "$@" -O0
>>>
>>>
> change mycc to this will work,:)
>
> #!/bin/sh
> gcc "$@" -O0 ||
>  gcc "$@" -O1 ||
>  gcc "$@"
>
>
>>> then
>>>
>>> make CC=./mycc vmlinux
>>>
>>> Hui Zhu said
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 16:16, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:56:15AM +0800, Hui Zhu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Now, there are a lot of ways to debug the Linux kernel with GDB, like
>>> qemu, kgtp or kgdb and so on.
>>> But the developer more like add a printk. It have a lot of reason, a big one
>>> is:
>>> (gdb) p ret
>>> $3 = <value optimized out>
>>> And the code execution order is not right.
>>>
>>> This is becuase the Kernel is bult with gcc -O2.  Gcc will not
>>> generate enough debug message with file with -O2.
>>> So GDB cannot work very well with Linux kernel.
>>>
>>> So I make a patch that add a option in "Kernel hacking" called "Close
>>> GCC optimization".  It will make kernel be built without -O2.
>>>
>>> I built and use it in i386 and x86_64.  I will try to make it OK in other
>>> arch.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem is that some functions _have to_ be inlined and gcc without -O2
>>> doesn't inline them. Have check all the cases? I doubt.
>>>
>>>
>>> If they really need O2, I set  them to O2.
>>> Actually, this is the main work, find out the file that need the O2.  :)
>>>
>>> For example:
>>> ifdef CONFIG_CC_CLOSE_OPTIMIZATION
>>> CFLAGS_fpu.o                           += -O2
>>> CFLAGS_aesni-intel_glue.o              += -O2
>>> CFLAGS_ghash-clmulni-intel_glue.o      += -O2
>>> endif
>>>
>>> And I will try to find more of these type files.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, what is size of vmlinux before applying your patch and after that?
>>> Does it increase too much?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Before the patch:
>>> ls -alh vmlinuz-2.6.37-rc3+
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M 2010-11-25 12:02 vmlinuz-2.6.37-rc3+
>>> ls -alh b26no/vmlinux
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 teawater teawater 135M 2010-11-25 13:31 b26no/vmlinux
>>>
>>> After the patch:
>>> ls -alh vmlinuz-2.6.37-rc3debug+
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.6M 2010-11-25 14:02 vmlinuz-2.6.37-rc3debug+
>>> ls -alh b26/vmlinux
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 teawater teawater 140M 2010-11-25 11:14 b26/vmlinux
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Hui
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> 乔崇 qiaochong@loongson.cn
>>>
>>> 2010年 11月 29日 星期一 16:35:38 CST
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> 乔崇 qiaochong@loongson.cn
> 龙芯中科技术服务中心有限公司
> office:010-62600855-615
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>
> 2010年 11月 29日 星期一 17:38:14 CST
>
>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29  3:56 Hui Zhu
2010-11-29  8:11 ` Américo Wang
2010-11-29  8:18   ` microcai
2010-11-29  8:25   ` Hui Zhu
2010-11-29  8:48     ` Américo Wang
2010-11-29  9:11       ` Hui Zhu
2010-11-29 18:05       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-11-29 20:51       ` richard -rw- weinberger
2010-11-29 21:00         ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-29 21:07           ` richard -rw- weinberger
     [not found]     ` <4CF36741.9000808@loongson.cn>
2010-11-29  8:48       ` [hellogcc] " Hui Zhu
2010-11-29  8:55         ` Steven
2010-11-29  8:58           ` Hui Zhu
     [not found]         ` <4CF3762B.9010102@loongson.cn>
2010-11-29 18:11           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-11-29 18:35             ` Steven J. Magnani
     [not found]             ` <20101129220350.GA10923@core2.telecom.by>
2010-12-01 13:22               ` Hui Zhu
2010-12-01 12:23           ` bekars [this message]
2010-12-01 13:24             ` Hui Zhu
2010-12-01 13:58               ` bekars
2010-12-01 15:02                 ` Hui Zhu
2010-12-01 15:42                   ` jovi zhang
2010-11-29  9:44   ` Christian Borntraeger
2010-11-29 11:12     ` Segher Boessenkool
2010-11-29 11:17       ` Christian Borntraeger
2010-11-29 11:57         ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2010-12-01 12:18     ` Hui Zhu
2010-11-29  9:59 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-29 10:12   ` Mark Wielaard
2010-11-30  9:26     ` Américo Wang
2010-11-30 18:40       ` Michael Snyder
2010-12-01 12:52   ` Hui Zhu
2010-11-29 19:06 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-11-29 21:07 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-30 22:40   ` Petr Hluzín
2010-12-01 13:42     ` Hui Zhu
2010-12-01 13:11   ` Hui Zhu
2011-01-24  7:48 ` Hui Zhu
2011-01-24  8:11   ` Kevin Pouget
2011-01-24 12:42     ` Hui Zhu
2011-01-28  3:41       ` Hui Zhu
2011-02-17  2:44         ` Hui Zhu
     [not found]           ` <AANLkTik+beFdZZHLyei044q8EPHwvmiKoFAvAHsNuhmw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-21 12:52             ` Kevin Pouget
2011-02-23  5:20             ` Hui Zhu

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