Re: [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC

2013-09-02 Thread Vineet Gupta
Hi Gilad, On 09/02/2013 02:33 PM, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Vineet Gupta > wrote: >> Frame pointer on ARC doesn't serve the conventional purpose of stack >> unwinding due to the typical way ABI designates it's usage. > More out of curiosity to understand

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC

2013-09-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi, On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > > Frame pointer on ARC doesn't serve the conventional purpose of stack > unwinding due to the typical way ABI designates it's usage. More out of curiosity to understand the platform better than actual review - can you explain a little w

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC

2013-09-02 Thread Vineet Gupta
On 08/30/2013 08:50 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 08/30/2013 12:48 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> If we had ARCH_FRAME_POINTER_UNAVAILABLE (def_bool n), we could potentially >> remove >> ARCH_FRAME_POINTER too: >> The issue is some (sparc, c6x...) which are neither in #1 or #2, and not >> present >> i

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC

2013-08-30 Thread Dave Hansen
On 08/30/2013 12:48 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > If we had ARCH_FRAME_POINTER_UNAVAILABLE (def_bool n), we could potentially > remove > ARCH_FRAME_POINTER too: > > 1. arches which explicitly select ARCH_FRAME_POINTER (xtensa, parisc, arm64, > x86, > unicore32, tile) could just drop that select. >

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC

2013-08-30 Thread Vineet Gupta
[+linux-arch and other arch maintainers] On 08/29/2013 08:48 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 08/27/2013 01:31 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> Frame pointer on ARC doesn't serve the conventional purpose of stack >> unwinding due to the typical way ABI designates it's usage. >> Thus it's explicit usage on AR

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC

2013-08-29 Thread Vineet Gupta
On 08/29/2013 08:48 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > > I assume you're sending this my way since getmaintainer.pl has me tagged > I moved a bunch of code in there. :) Indeed :-) > The Kconfig.debug stuff has no real maintainer. It would probably be OK > if you just stick this in your architecture's next

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC

2013-08-29 Thread Dave Hansen
On 08/27/2013 01:31 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Frame pointer on ARC doesn't serve the conventional purpose of stack > unwinding due to the typical way ABI designates it's usage. > Thus it's explicit usage on ARC is discouraged (gcc is free to use it, > for some tricky stack frames even if -fomit-fra

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC

2013-08-29 Thread Vineet Gupta
Ping ? -Vineet On 08/27/2013 02:01 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Frame pointer on ARC doesn't serve the conventional purpose of stack > unwinding due to the typical way ABI designates it's usage. > Thus it's explicit usage on ARC is discouraged (gcc is free to use it, > for some tricky stack frames e