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Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 5a52f07259a2..eaad1536647f 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1051,10 +1051,9 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION depends on EXPERT help - Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and - data elimination with the linker by compiling with - -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, and linking with - --gc-sections. + Enable this if you want to do dead code and data elimination with + the linker by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, + and linking with --gc-sections. This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel code and static data, particularly for small configs and |