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author | Josh Poimboeuf | 2017-07-25 01:36:57 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar | 2017-07-26 13:18:20 +0200 |
commit | ee9f8fce99640811b2b8e79d0d1dbe8bab69ba67 (patch) | |
tree | be03fe86edb9ebd70b4d29ca2bc8a4d972ff6644 /arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h | |
parent | x86/asm: Make objtool unreachable macros independent from GCC version (diff) | |
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x86/unwind: Add the ORC unwinder
Add the new ORC unwinder which is enabled by CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
It plugs into the existing x86 unwinder framework.
It relies on objtool to generate the needed .orc_unwind and
.orc_unwind_ip sections.
For more details on why ORC is used instead of DWARF, see
Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt - but the short version is
that it's a simplified, fundamentally more robust debugninfo
data structure, which also allows up to two orders of magnitude
faster lookups than the DWARF unwinder - which matters to
profiling workloads like perf.
Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the performance improvement ideas:
splitting the ORC unwind table into two parallel arrays and creating a
fast lookup table to search a subset of the unwind table.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a6cbfb40f8da99b7a45a1a8302dc6aef16ec812.1500938583.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
[ Extended the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h index 7dc777a6cb40..9c9dc579bd7d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/orc_types.h @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct orc_entry { unsigned sp_reg:4; unsigned bp_reg:4; unsigned type:2; -}; +} __packed; /* * This struct is used by asm and inline asm code to manually annotate the |