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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO's bloaty nature
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:32:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvny238i.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzXvPseHVZOk82hTpFrQYRnHnq-5TBz5Jw__wuktUgi2w@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 4 Feb 2014 08:36:14 -0800")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> Trivial oneliner patch (independent of the discussion about improving
> the documentation), so I'll just apply it.
>
> I can't imagine that this would be controversial:
>
>    config DEBUG_INFO
>           bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
>   -       depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
>   +       depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
>           help
>
> Hm?

I have used debug info on allyesconfig in the past to run statistics
on the resulting binary. It's still useful, even though quite slow.
Make it depend on !EXPERT or somesuch? I agree for normal usages it's fine.

BTW you probably also want to do the same for the x86 instruction
decoder test. It seems to be the biggest compile time waster in
allyesconfig and I usually disable it too.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-04 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-03 18:29 [PATCH] Clarify CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO's bloaty nature Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 22:00 ` David Rientjes
2014-02-03 22:47   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-03 22:57     ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-03 23:34       ` David Rientjes
2014-02-04  9:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-02-04 16:36           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-04 17:32             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-02-04 18:41               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-05  5:51                 ` [PATCH] x86: Disable CONFIG_X86_DECODER_SELFTEST in allmod/allyesconfigs Ingo Molnar
2014-02-05 16:17                   ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-02-05 17:32                     ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-10 13:31                   ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/debug: " tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2014-02-11  0:01                   ` [PATCH] x86: " Stephen Rothwell
2014-02-11  7:14                     ` Ingo Molnar
2014-02-05  5:46             ` [PATCH] Clarify CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO's bloaty nature Ingo Molnar
2014-02-04  4:59       ` Borislav Petkov

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