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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] do not select KALLSYMS_ALL
FromArtem Bityutskiy <>
DateFri, 01 Apr 2011 17:56:16 +0300
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:18 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > [...]
> > I personally think KALLSYMS_ALL should be just merged with KALLSYMS and
> > disappear - we should have only one option. CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS should
> > die as well.
>
> That sounds a little too extreme...
>
> KALLSYMS is useful for most kernels, since it provides nice readable
> stack dumps for panics and BUG's.
>
> KALLSYMS_ALL adds a lot of extra symbols that can be useful mostly to
> development kernels and shouldn't be used to add unnecessary bloat to
> user kernels.

Well, ok, I've measured how much is this "a lot". On an embedded arm
platform this makes the kernel only 1.5% larger.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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