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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-24 22:31:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-24 22:31:37 +0200 |
| commit | 2bb732cdb48d271ff7a910260ffb851fb4bc8a28 (patch) | |
| tree | 580bf68eb1e52b4e6915588d61423347ae09c318 /init/Kconfig | |
| parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6 (diff) | |
| parent | kbuild: make KBUILD_NOCMDDEP=1 handle empty built-in.o (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
kbuild: make KBUILD_NOCMDDEP=1 handle empty built-in.o
scripts/kallsyms.c: fix potential segfault
scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Convert to a /bin/sh script
kbuild: Fix GNU make v3.80 compatibility
kbuild: Fix passing -Wno-* options to gcc 4.4+
kbuild: move scripts/basic/docproc.c to scripts/docproc.c
kbuild: Fix Makefile.asm-generic for um
kbuild: Allow to combine multiple W= levels
kbuild: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable for gcc 4.6.0
Fix handling of backlash character in LINUX_COMPILE_BY name
kbuild: asm-generic support
kbuild: implement several W= levels
kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19
initramfs: Use KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP for generated entries
kbuild: Allow to override LINUX_COMPILE_BY and LINUX_COMPILE_HOST macros
kbuild: Drop unused LINUX_COMPILE_TIME and LINUX_COMPILE_DOMAIN macros
kbuild: Use the deterministic mode of ar
kbuild: Call gzip with -n
kbuild: move KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile
Kconfig: improve KALLSYMS_ALL documentation
Fix up trivial conflict in Makefile
Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 30 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index c8b172efaa65..332aac649966 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -959,24 +959,18 @@ config KALLSYMS_ALL bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS help - Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer - OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other - symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them - and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. - - Say N. - -config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS - bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" - depends on KALLSYMS - help - If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with - inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and - turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. - Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be - reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while - you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. - + Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer + OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext + sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare + cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g., + names of variables from the data sections, etc). + + This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel + image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel + size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or + something like this). + + Say N unless you really need all symbols. config HOTPLUG bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT |