[PATCH] i386: reliable stack trace support (i386)

These are the i386-specific pieces to enable reliable stack traces. This is
going to be even more useful once CFI annotations get added to he assembly
code, namely to entry.S.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 7512f39c9f25..2d4f1386e2b1 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ SECTIONS
   .data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.read_mostly) }
   _edata = .;                   /* End of data section */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND
+  . = ALIGN(4);
+  .eh_frame : AT(ADDR(.eh_frame) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+        __start_unwind = .;
+        *(.eh_frame)
+        __end_unwind = .;
+  }
+#endif
+
   . = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE);       /* init_task */
   .data.init_task : AT(ADDR(.data.init_task) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
         *(.data.init_task)