On 2013-10-30 06:35, Andi Kleen wrote: >> The loading mechanism is based on gdb loading for <objfile>-gdb.py when >> opening <objfile>. Therefore, this places a corresponding link to the >> main helper script into the output directory that contains vmlinux. > >> This feature depends on CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO. > > Could you make this a separate config option? Having the links for > people who don't use gdb would be ugly. > Like this? diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 06344d9..d66a8f8 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -143,6 +143,17 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. Only works with newer gcc versions. +config GDB_SCRIPTS + bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging" + select DEBUG_INFO + help + This creates the required links to GDB helper scripts in the + build directory. If you load vmlinux into gdb, the helper + scripts will be automatically imported by gdb as well, and + additional functions are available to analyze a Linux kernel + instance. See Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt for further + details. + config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED bool "Enable __deprecated logic" default y Will send an updated series soon, also adjusting the docs, just waiting for potential further comments. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
