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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] MIPS: Kconfig: Select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
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On 16.11.2020 12:47, Tiezhu Yang wrote:

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>>> Select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS to fix the following build error under
>>> CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP:
>>>
>>>    CC      arch/mips/kernel/signal.o
>>> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
>>> {standard input}:1775: Error: Unable to parse register name $fp
>>> scripts/Makefile.build:283: recipe for target 'arch/mips/kernel/signal.o'
>>> failed
>>> make[2]: *** [arch/mips/kernel/signal.o] Error 1
>>> scripts/Makefile.build:500: recipe for target 'arch/mips/kernel' failed
>>> make[1]: *** [arch/mips/kernel] Error 2
>>> Makefile:1799: recipe for target 'arch/mips' failed
>>> make: *** [arch/mips] Error 2
>>>
>>> I think it is useful to get debugging information as described in the
>>> following texts:
>>>
>>> lib/Kconfig.debug
>>> config FRAME_POINTER
>>>          bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
>>>          ...
>>>          default y if (DEBUG_INFO && UML) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
>>>          help
>>>            If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly
>>>            larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
>>>            in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
>>>
>>> Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
>>> This option inserts code to into the compiled executable which saves
>>
>>    So to or into? :-)
>
> Hi Sergei,
>
> Thanks for pointing that out,this may be a typo which should be "into".

Oops, I didn't realize it was a quote from the KGDB docs... :-)

> I will update the commit message to correct it.

Thank you!

> Thanks,
> Tiezhu

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MBR, Sergei

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