Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] do not select KALLSYMS_ALL | | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | | Date | Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:56:16 +0300 |
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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.
-- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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