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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14
    On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:25:15PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
    > >
    > > Shouldn't we hold that down in the Kconfig help text of DEBUG_INFO?
    > > Something like:
    > >
    > > "You don't need to enable this if you want symbolic names for kernel
    > > objects. Enable CONFIG_KALLSYMS instead."
    >
    > Probably. And then we should make sure that allyesconfig/allmodconfig
    > don't pick it.
    >
    > There *are* reasonable uses for DEBUG_INFO:
    >
    > - if you very actively and extensively use kgdb, DEBUG_INFO is very useful.
    >
    > - distros might want to build distro kernels with DEBUG_INFO for the
    > kernel debug package

    - objdump -S is kind of useful. I find myself using that quite often.
    (like at least a dozen times each merge window)

    pretty sure it works with DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED though, which is somewhat
    faster than full DEBUG_INFO

    Dave



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