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authorLinus Torvalds2021-02-24 08:57:06 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2021-02-24 08:57:06 -0800
commita555bdd0c58ce368fb1324f0e93d17f7c4babece (patch)
tree964dd7826bcd23078c1d7829ed9548ae7db7024b /Documentation/kernel-hacking
parentc03c21ba6f4e95e406a1a7b4c34ef334b977c194 (diff)
Kbuild: enable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS again, with some guarding
In commit 5cf0fd591f2e ("Kbuild: disable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS option") I disabled this option because it's hugely expensive at build time, and I questioned how much use it gets. Several people piped up and convinced me it's actually useful, so instead of disabling it entirely, it now depends on EXPERT and gets disabled by COMPILE_TEST builds so that 'allmodconfig' style things don't enable it. I still hope somebody will take a look at the build time issue, because as Arnd also noted: "However, the combination of thinlto and trim indeed has a steep cost in compile time, taking almost twice as long as a normal defconfig (gc-sections makes it slightly faster)" Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Cc: Cristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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