Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757616Ab1DAO6q (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:58:46 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:53519 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757311Ab1DAO6p (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:58:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=Y/MAWktK7YTXrvpi+/RHTSH57OqVKOzYqzvzkJtXBm+yulf6VcDA6ewl6KZD701YCW S3+YSGBsNikHnhckSAwAqBTX209/DhltabH8hxPHOJn/BqlP4GzbcGipocJQFe5lTZES pu7JOa94hxf7LRJ1y/oI1AgQIrWPuAQ/OqjQQ= Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] do not select KALLSYMS_ALL From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com To: Paulo Marques Cc: Randy Dunlap , MTD list , lkml In-Reply-To: <4D948D52.4040708@grupopie.com> References: <1301474416-8202-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> <4D948D52.4040708@grupopie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:56:16 +0300 Message-ID: <1301669776.2789.92.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 (2.32.2-1.fc14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1012 Lines: 28 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) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/