linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1408061537220.13545@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:38:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	"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: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest
 possible kernel

On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Josh Triplett wrote:

> 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

Calling allnoconfig here makes "make tinyconfig" default to CONFIG_X86_32 
even on 64 bit platforms and the caller would need to explicitly do
"make ARCH=x86_64 tinyconfig" to avoid it.  It's not clear that this is 
intended from the documentation of tinyconfig, that tiniest == 32 bit by 
default.

> +	$(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
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