Kconfig: improve KALLSYMS_ALL documentation
Dumb users like myself are not able to grasp from the existing KALLSYMS_ALL documentation that this option is not what they need. Improve the help message and make it clearer that KALLSYMS is enough in the majority of use cases, and KALLSYMS_ALL should really be used very rarely. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
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help
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Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
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OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
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symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
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and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
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Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
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OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
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sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
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cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
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names of variables from the data sections, etc).
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Say N.
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This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
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image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
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size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
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something like this).
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Say N unless you really need all symbols.
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config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
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bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
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