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author | Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> | 2011-05-25 21:51:55 -0700 |
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committer | Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> | 2011-05-25 21:51:55 -0700 |
commit | ece928df16494becd43f999aff9bd530182e7e81 (patch) | |
tree | 905042764ea5d8ab6eda63666406e19f607bcf4c /init/Kconfig | |
parent | 3d1c1829ebe7e8bb48a997b39b4865abc9197e5e (diff) | |
parent | dda54e76d7dba0532ebdd72e0b4f492a03f83225 (diff) | |
download | linux-ece928df16494becd43f999aff9bd530182e7e81.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'move_extents' of git://oss.oracle.com/git/tye/linux-2.6 into ocfs2-merge-window
Conflicts:
fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index c8b172efaa65..332aac649966 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -959,24 +959,18 @@ 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. - -config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS - bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" - depends on KALLSYMS - help - If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with - inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and - turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. - Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be - reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while - you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. - + 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 HOTPLUG bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT |