Re: [PATCH] Clarify CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO's bloaty nature

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

EXPERT is useless, people set it randomly.

I'd suggest that for any statistics gathering, you just disable
COMPILE_TEST. You can do that by just editing the .config file after
doing the allyesconfig, or by pre-seeding the allyesconfig with
COMPILE_TEST disabled.

Your use-case is rather special, after all. I do *not* believe that we
should make one of the goals of "make all{yes,mod}config" be that kind
of odd specialized thing.

> 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.

Agreed, that should be disabled too by default. Although in that case
I think the COMPILE_TEST combination makes more sense, since it's a
coverage issue.

Suggestions for symbols?

                 Linus
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