Re: [PATCH] Makefile.debug: support for -gz=zstd

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 10:44 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 8:46 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 8:43 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:56:49AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > > +config DEBUG_INFO_UNCOMPRESSED
> > > > +     bool "Don't compress debug information"
> > > > +     help
> > > > +       Don't compress debug info sections.
> > > > +
> > > >  config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
> >
> > Also, I prefer...
> >
> > DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE
> > DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB
> > DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD
> >
> > Following...
> >
> > $ ld.lld-16 -v
> > Debian LLD 16.0.0 (compatible with GNU linkers)
> >
> > $ ld.lld-16 --help | grep compress-debug-sections
> >  --compress-debug-sections=[none,zlib,zstd]
>
> It's a good suggestion, though I deliberately did not modify the
> identifier used for the existing DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED.  No defconfigs
> set DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED explicitly, but I think one issue with
> changing the identifier of existing kconfigs is that upon upgrading to
> newer kernel sources, if you run `make oldmodconfig` if you previously
> had DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED=y, kconfig doesn't know that that option has
> been renamed to DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB so it would be silently
> disabled, and image sizes would increase due to uncompressed debug
> info. That seems developer hostile.
>
> Masahiro, what are your thoughts on how to proceed? Should I change
> the pre-existing Kconfig identifier, or "let sleeping dogs lie?"

Hi Masahiro,
What are your thoughts on the above?

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> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers



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~Nick Desaulniers