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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:31:54 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest
 possible kernel

Since commit 5d2acfc7b974bbd3858b4dd3f2cdc6362dd8843a ("kconfig: make
allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT") in 3.15-rc1,
"make allnoconfig" disables every possible config option.

However, a few configuration options (CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE,
OPTIMIZE_INLINING) produce a smaller kernel when turned on, and a few
choices exist (compression, highmem, allocator) for which a non-default
option produces a smaller kernel.

Add a "tinyconfig" option, which starts from allnoconfig and then sets
these options to configure the tiniest possible kernel.  This provides a
better baseline for embedded systems or efforts to reduce kernel size.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
---

v2: Based this on Luis's helper, added in patch 1/2, which eliminates
the previously duplicated implementation from kvmconfig.

 arch/x86/Makefile            | 5 +++++
 arch/x86/configs/tiny.config | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/configs/tiny.config

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 1568678..2b5ca16 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ PHONY += kvmconfig
 kvmconfig:
 	$(call mergeconfig,kvm_guest)
 
+PHONY += tinyconfig
+tinyconfig: allnoconfig
+	$(call mergeconfig,tiny)
+
 define archhelp
   echo  '* bzImage      - Compressed kernel image (arch/x86/boot/bzImage)'
   echo  '  install      - Install kernel using'
@@ -271,4 +275,5 @@ define archhelp
   echo  '                  FDARGS="..."  arguments for the booted kernel'
   echo  '                  FDINITRD=file initrd for the booted kernel'
   echo  '  kvmconfig	- Enable additional options for guest kernel support'
+  echo  '  tinyconfig   - Configure the tiniest possible kernel'
 endef
diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config b/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f0e54c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
+CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ=y
+CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
+CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
+CONFIG_SLOB=y
-- 
2.1.0.rc1

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