Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-14 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Nick, > + Nick, H.J. > I'm unfamiliar with the git tag conventions of binutils. Does a patch > that landed in 2.25.51.0.4 mean it shipped in the official 2.25 > release, or 2.26 release? Specifically, commit 19a7fe52ae3d. 2.26. The convention is that a released form of the binutils has a ve

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-13 Thread Nick Desaulniers
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 1:01 PM Fangrui Song wrote: > > >Fangrui, I wasn't able to easily find what version of binutils first > >added support. Can you please teach me how to fish? > > I actually downloaded https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ archives and > located the sources... I think an easier

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-13 Thread Sedat Dilek
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:52 AM Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > Nick, > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:23 AM Nick Desaulniers > wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:54 PM Masahiro Yamada > > wrote: > > > > > > > >On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers > > > > > wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-12 Thread Masahiro Yamada
Nick, On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:23 AM Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:54 PM Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > > > > >On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers > > > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >> As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly > > > >> save

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-12 Thread Sedat Dilek
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:01 PM Fangrui Song wrote: > > On 2020-05-12, Nick Desaulniers wrote: ... > >I have a patch series that enables dwarf5 support in the kernel that > >I'm working up to. I wanted to send this first. Both roughly reduce > >the debug info size by 20% each, though I haven't

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-12 Thread Sedat Dilek
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:23 PM Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:54 PM Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > > > > >On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers > > > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >> As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly > > > >> save > > >

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-12 Thread Fangrui Song
On 2020-05-12, Nick Desaulniers wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:54 PM Masahiro Yamada wrote: > >On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers > > wrote: > >> > >> As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save > >> the size of vmlinux images to compress the inform

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-12 Thread Nick Desaulniers
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:54 PM Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > > >On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save > > >> the size of vmlinux images to compress the information in the debug > > >> infor

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-12 Thread Sedat Dilek
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 7:47 AM Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > Hi Sedat, > > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:25 AM Sedat Dilek wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers > > wrote: > > > > > > As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save > > > the size of v

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-11 Thread Masahiro Yamada
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:47 AM Fangrui Song wrote: > > > On 2020-05-04, Sedat Dilek wrote: > >On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers > > wrote: > >> > >> As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save > >> the size of vmlinux images to compress the information in

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-11 Thread Masahiro Yamada
Hi Sedat, On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:25 AM Sedat Dilek wrote: > > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers > wrote: > > > > As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save > > the size of vmlinux images to compress the information in the debug > > information secti

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-04 Thread Fangrui Song
On 2020-05-04, Sedat Dilek wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers wrote: As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save the size of vmlinux images to compress the information in the debug information sections. Note: this debug info is typically split

Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-04 Thread Sedat Dilek
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:13 AM Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save > the size of vmlinux images to compress the information in the debug > information sections. Note: this debug info is typically split off from > the final compressed

[PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

2020-05-03 Thread Nick Desaulniers
As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save the size of vmlinux images to compress the information in the debug information sections. Note: this debug info is typically split off from the final compressed kernel image, which is why vmlinux is what's used in conjunction