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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-05 14:10:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-05 14:10:07 -0700 |
| commit | da9e82b3b8989fc09e2a4c45b9da604ba2b4c46d (patch) | |
| tree | 7355d2afe95be27fddb8fa4baa46476c76aeb8ee /lib/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | 90d3417a3a4e810d67081dd106f0e603a856978f (diff) | |
| parent | 772320e84588dcbe1600ffb83e5f328f2209ac2a (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:
modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections
trivial: fix a typo in a filename
frv: clean up arch/frv/Makefile
kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL on the command line
kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command line
Kbuild: Add option to set -femit-struct-debug-baseonly
Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correct full kernel version
Makefile.build: make KBUILD_SYMTYPES work again
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 154ff43aaa81..67fa774f9572 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -628,6 +628,19 @@ config DEBUG_INFO If unsure, say N. +config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED + bool "Reduce debugging information" + depends on DEBUG_INFO + help + If you say Y here gcc is instructed to generate less debugging + information for structure types. This means that tools that + need full debugging information (like kgdb or systemtap) won't + be happy. But if you merely need debugging information to + resolve line numbers there is no loss. Advantage is that + build directory object sizes shrink dramatically over a full + DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. + Only works with newer gcc versions. + config DEBUG_VM bool "Debug VM" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL |