[PATCH] x86_64: reliable stack trace support (x86-64)
These are the x86_64-specific pieces to enable reliable stack traces. The
only restriction with this is that it currently cannot unwind across the
interrupt->normal stack boundary, as that transition is lacking proper
annotation.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 5968c24..1c6a5f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@
RODATA
+#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND
+ . = ALIGN(8);
+ .eh_frame : AT(ADDR(.eh_frame) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+ __start_unwind = .;
+ *(.eh_frame)
+ __end_unwind = .;
+ }
+#endif
+
/* Data */
.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
*(.data)