linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular kernel debugging options in the defconfig

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Message-ID: <8734djcj32.fsf@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 13:56:01 +0100
From: Sam James <sam@...too.org>
To: mingo@...nel.org
Cc: ardb@...nel.org,arnd@...db.de,bp@...en8.de,dwmw@...zon.co.uk,hpa@...or.com,linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,michal.lkml@...kovi.net,peterz@...radead.org,tglx@...utronix.de,torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com,
 Elena Zannoni <elena.zannoni@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular kernel debugging
 options in the defconfig

> DEBUGINFO is still disabled, despite enabled in all Linux distros,
> because the ~10x .o bloat is still just so painful on anything
> but the most powerful build boxes.

My hope is that soon, we'll be in a position to have directly-generated
BTF (which should be far quicker than generating tonnes of DWARF) which
should resolve that.