On 04/12/2016, 05:56 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

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We had been using unwinder for over a decade in SUSE but it stopped
working for assembly recently (for obvious reasons). So having a working
and reliable unwinder again is one of the top priorities for us.

Since you already have an unwinder in SUSE, it sounds like what you need
most urgently is DWARF generation support in objtool so that your
unwinder will work again for asm code, right?  The kernel already emits
DWARF today (for C code), so an upstream unwinder isn't needed first.

Right, that's exact.

That's high on my TODO list, and the coding is probably 70-80% done.  I
don't want to hold up progress...  But I don't really feel comfortable
passing the code off because it's quite a big feature with some major
changes to objtool.  Being the objtool author, I want to make sure to
give it my full attention.

Sure. There is going to be no pressure to merge the v1 of the changes.
But it would be nice to see what you have now so that we can start
reviewing and proposing patches on the top of what you have :).

I'm spread quite thin at the moment but I do hope to have v1 of those
patches soon, hopefully May-ish.

So I hope we will see something we can start working on now. I can
really dedicate one-man hours to that work.

thanks,
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js
suse labs