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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/config: Introduce CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_IKCONFIG
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Hi,

On 10/4/23 09:58, Stephen Brennan wrote:
> The option CONFIG_IKCONFIG allows the gzip compressed kernel
> configuration to be included into vmlinux or a module. In these cases,
> debuggers can access the config data and use it to adjust their behavior
> according to the configuration. However, distributions rarely enable
> this, likely because it uses a fair bit of kernel memory which cannot be
> swapped out.

x86_64 allmodconfig is 91 KB gzipped... oh well.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

> This means that in practice, the kernel configuration is rarely
> available to debuggers.
>
> So, introduce an alternative, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_IKCONFIG. This strategy,
> which is only available if IKCONFIG is not already built-in, adds a
> section ".debug_linux_ikconfig", to the vmlinux ELF. It will be stripped
> out of the final images, but will remain in the debuginfo files. So
> debuggers which rely on vmlinux debuginfo can have access to the kernel
> configuration, without incurring a cost to the kernel at runtime.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
> ---
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 3 ++-
> kernel/Makefile | 1 +
> kernel/configs-debug.S | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 kernel/configs-debug.S


--
~Randy

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