David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:

> We really don't want the .eh_frame section in the kernel or loadable
> modules at all.  ISTR that the linux amd64 kernels are compiled without it.
> All it contains is information about the stack offset EVERY time it changes
> to make writing a debugger stack trace back simple.
> The gnu people decided that the extra space 'didn't matter' because 'all
> programs are demand paged' so made the .eh_frame section be the default
> even when not compiled with -g.

It's not just for debugging; it's also necessary for the runtime
stack-frame unwinding of C++ exceptions. Since C++ code can call into
C code, the frame information is needed in C code as well.

This doesn't justify its inclusion in our non-C++ kernel, of course,
but in general C objects, which may be linked with C++, it should be
present.

        - Nathan