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| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 17 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -825,6 +825,12 @@ DEBUG_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly) \ $(call cc-option,-fno-var-tracking) endif +ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED +DEBUG_CFLAGS += -gz=zlib +KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,--compress-debug-sections=zlib +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += --compress-debug-sections=zlib +endif + KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(DEBUG_CFLAGS) export DEBUG_CFLAGS diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 21d9c5f6e7ec..d7da101bccc8 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -213,6 +213,23 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. Only works with newer gcc versions. +config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED + bool "Compressed debugging information" + depends on DEBUG_INFO + depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) + depends on $(as-option,-Wa$(comma)--compress-debug-sections=zlib) + depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) + help + Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang + 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. + + Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in + size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the + debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being + recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still + preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even + larger. + config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" depends on DEBUG_INFO |