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| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 56240e724d9a..563065df29a5 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -968,12 +968,18 @@ 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. + 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 KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" |