debug: Add CONFIG_READABLE_ASM

Add a config option to disable various gcc compiler optimizations that
make assembler listings much harder to read. This is everything that reorders
code significantly or creates partial functions.

This is mainly to keep kernel hackers sane.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332960678-11879-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 6777153f18f..4d3cbbbe451 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
           that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
           get_wchan() and suchlike.
 
+config READABLE_ASM
+        bool "Generate readable assembler code"
+        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+        help
+          Disable some compiler optimizations that tend to generate human unreadable
+          assembler output. This may make the kernel slightly slower, but it helps
+          to keep kernel developers who have to stare a lot at assembler listings
+          sane.
+
 config UNUSED_SYMBOLS
         bool "Enable unused/obsolete exported symbols"
         default y if X86