From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1427070AbcBRUHq (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:07:46 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:37142 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1427034AbcBRUHO (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:07:14 -0500 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT From: Nicolas Pitre To: Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Rusty Russell Subject: [PATCH v3 7/7] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:07:03 -0500 Message-id: <1455826023-2134-8-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.0 In-reply-to: <1455826023-2134-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> References: <1455826023-2134-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The config option to enable it all. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Acked-by: Rusty Russell --- init/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 22320804fb..e6f666331b 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1990,6 +1990,22 @@ config MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ endchoice +config TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS + bool "Trim unused exported kernel symbols" + depends on MODULES && !UNUSED_SYMBOLS + help + The kernel and some modules make many symbols available for + other modules to use via EXPORT_SYMBOL() and variants. Depending + on the set of modules being selected in your kernel configuration, + many of those exported symbols might never be used. + + This option allows for unused exported symbols to be dropped from + the build. In turn, this provides the compiler more opportunities + (especially when using LTO) for optimizing the code and reducing + binary size. This might have some security advantages as well. + + If unsure say N. + endif # MODULES config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP -- 2.5.0