On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 12:17:26PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > This configuration is useful for boot testing malta_defconfig in QEMU > with just a simple cpio initrd, instead of a full ext4 rootfs. > > This results in an increase of ~164KB of vmlinux (with GCC 11.2.0): > > $ diskus vmlinux.before > 11.19 MB (11,194,368 bytes) > > $ diskus vmlinux.after > 11.36 MB (11,358,208 bytes) > > This size increase comes from the fact that usr/Kconfig is sourced when > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is enabled, which defaults to supporting several > decompression algorithms for compressed initrds. This seems like a > reasonable tradeoff but these configurations could be disabled in the > future if there are complaints about the size increase. > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> I'm all for having a regular way to test all defconfigs. So, FWIW: Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -Kees > --- > arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig b/arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig > index 3321bb576944..3456ac8ded6c 100644 > --- a/arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig > +++ b/arch/mips/configs/malta_defconfig > @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y > CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=15 > CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y > CONFIG_RELAY=y > +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y > CONFIG_EXPERT=y > # CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set > CONFIG_SLAB=y > > base-commit: dfd42facf1e4ada021b939b4e19c935dcdd55566 > -- > 2.35.1 > -- Kees Cook