[V3 PATCH] arm64: remove redundant FRAME_POINTER kconfig option and force to select it
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Nov 10 02:37:52 PST 2015
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:09:55AM -0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> FRAME_POINTER is defined in lib/Kconfig.debug, it is unnecessary to redefine
> it in arch/arm64/Kconfig.debug. Actually, the one defined in arm64 directory
> is never used.
That's not true since the arm64 definition seems to take precedence.
> This adds a dependency on DEBUG_KERNEL for building with frame pointers.
It doesn't because arm64 selects ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS.
> ARM64 depends on frame pointer to get correct stack backtrace and need
> FRAME_POINTER kconfig option enabled all the time.
> However, currect implementation makes it could be disabled, so force it
> to be selected by ARM64.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi at linaro.org>
Patch applied but I changed the commit log slightly. Thanks.
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Catalin
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