1. 15 7月, 2016 1 次提交
  2. 02 6月, 2015 1 次提交
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      x86/debug: Remove perpetually broken, unmaintainable dwarf annotations · 131484c8
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      So the dwarf2 annotations in low level assembly code have
      become an increasing hindrance: unreadable, messy macros
      mixed into some of the most security sensitive code paths
      of the Linux kernel.
      
      These debug info annotations don't even buy the upstream
      kernel anything: dwarf driven stack unwinding has caused
      problems in the past so it's out of tree, and the upstream
      kernel only uses the much more robust framepointers based
      stack unwinding method.
      
      In addition to that there's a steady, slow bitrot going
      on with these annotations, requiring frequent fixups.
      There's no tooling and no functionality upstream that
      keeps it correct.
      
      So burn down the sick forest, allowing new, healthier growth:
      
         27 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 1101 deletions(-)
      
      Someone who has the willingness and time to do this
      properly can attempt to reintroduce dwarf debuginfo in x86
      assembly code plus dwarf unwinding from first principles,
      with the following conditions:
      
       - it should be maximally readable, and maximally low-key to
         'ordinary' code reading and maintenance.
      
       - find a build time method to insert dwarf annotations
         automatically in the most common cases, for pop/push
         instructions that manipulate the stack pointer. This could
         be done for example via a preprocessing step that just
         looks for common patterns - plus special annotations for
         the few cases where we want to depart from the default.
         We have hundreds of CFI annotations, so automating most of
         that makes sense.
      
       - it should come with build tooling checks that ensure that
         CFI annotations are sensible. We've seen such efforts from
         the framepointer side, and there's no reason it couldn't be
         done on the dwarf side.
      
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
      Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
      Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      131484c8
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  8. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4