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@@ -968,12 +968,18 @@ config KALLSYMS_ALL
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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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- Say N.
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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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+
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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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+
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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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