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Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf)

From Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf)
Date 2017-07-13 06:30 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 05:47:59PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 03:30:31PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> writes:
> > >
> > > The ORC data format does have a few downsides compared to DWARF.  The
> > > ORC unwind tables take up ~1MB more memory than DWARF eh_frame tables.
> > >
> > Can we have an option to just use dwarf instead? For people
> > who don't want to waste a MB+ to solve a problem that doesn't
> > exist (as proven by many years of opensuse kernel experience)
> > 
> > As far as I can tell this whole thing has only downsides compared
> > to the dwarf unwinder that was earlier proposed. I don't see
> > a single advantage.
> 
> Improved speed, reliability, maintainability.  Are those not advantages?

Ok. We'll see how it works out.

The memory overhead is quite bad though. You're basically undoing many
years of efforts to shrink kernel text. I hope this can be still
done better.

-Andi

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[PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-11 17:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-07-12 10:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-12 16:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-07-12 21:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-14 19:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> - 2017-07-12 23:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-13 00:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> - 2017-07-13 00:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-13 00:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> - 2017-07-13 01:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-07-13 09:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-07-13 11:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-07-13 11:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-13 14:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-13 14:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-13 14:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-07-14 10:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-07-14 10:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-07-13 11:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2017-07-13 00:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-13 00:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2017-07-13 06:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-07-13 15:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-07-13 11:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-07-13 01:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-07-13 05:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2017-07-13 06:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-07-13 06:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2017-07-13 06:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> - 2017-07-13 07:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: ORC unwinder (previously undwarf) Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2017-07-13 14:10 +0200

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