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Subject[PATCH 2/2] x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel
Since commit 5d2acfc7b974bbd3858b4dd3f2cdc6362dd8843a ("kconfig: make
allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT") in 3.15-rc1,
"make allnoconfig" disables every possible config option.

However, a few configuration options (CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE,
OPTIMIZE_INLINING) produce a smaller kernel when turned on, and a few
choices exist (compression, highmem, allocator) for which a non-default
option produces a smaller kernel.

Add a "tinyconfig" option, which starts from allnoconfig and then sets
these options to configure the tiniest possible kernel. This provides a
better baseline for embedded systems or efforts to reduce kernel size.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
---

v2: Based this on Luis's helper, added in patch 1/2, which eliminates
the previously duplicated implementation from kvmconfig.

arch/x86/Makefile | 5 +++++
arch/x86/configs/tiny.config | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 arch/x86/configs/tiny.config

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 1568678..2b5ca16 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ PHONY += kvmconfig
kvmconfig:
$(call mergeconfig,kvm_guest)

+PHONY += tinyconfig
+tinyconfig: allnoconfig
+ $(call mergeconfig,tiny)
+
define archhelp
echo '* bzImage - Compressed kernel image (arch/x86/boot/bzImage)'
echo ' install - Install kernel using'
@@ -271,4 +275,5 @@ define archhelp
echo ' FDARGS="..." arguments for the booted kernel'
echo ' FDINITRD=file initrd for the booted kernel'
echo ' kvmconfig - Enable additional options for guest kernel support'
+ echo ' tinyconfig - Configure the tiniest possible kernel'
endef
diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config b/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f0e54c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/tiny.config
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
+CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ=y
+CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
+CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
+CONFIG_SLOB=y
--
2.1.0.rc1


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