linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] do not select KALLSYMS

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Date:	Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:56:16 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	MTD list <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] do not select KALLSYMS_ALL

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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