From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
MTD list <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] do not select KALLSYMS_ALL
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:56:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301669776.2789.92.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D948D52.4040708@grupopie.com>
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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-01 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-30 8:40 [PATCH 0/2] do not select KALLSYMS_ALL Artem Bityutskiy
2011-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] UBIFS: " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-03-30 22:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-03-31 6:29 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-03-30 8:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] UBI: " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-03-30 22:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-03-31 14:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Paulo Marques
2011-04-01 14:40 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-01 14:56 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-04-01 15:01 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-01 15:11 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-01 15:34 ` Paulo Marques
2011-04-01 15:42 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-01 15:54 ` Paulo Marques
2011-04-04 7:12 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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