From patchwork Wed Apr 5 13:56:29 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: =?utf-8?b?SsO8cmdlbiBHcm/Dnw==?= X-Patchwork-Id: 13201761 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30865C76188 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2023 13:57:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.518541.805224 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pk3cz-0008KX-86; Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:56:45 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 518541.805224; Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:56:45 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pk3cz-0008KQ-4o; Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:56:45 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 518541; Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:56:44 +0000 Received: from se1-gles-flk1-in.inumbo.com ([94.247.172.50] helo=se1-gles-flk1.inumbo.com) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pk3cy-0007mI-Kd for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:56:44 +0000 Received: from smtp-out2.suse.de (smtp-out2.suse.de [195.135.220.29]) by se1-gles-flk1.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id b21a5398-d3b9-11ed-b464-930f4c7d94ae; Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:56:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-out2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C81BD20634; Wed, 5 Apr 2023 13:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8864513A31; Wed, 5 Apr 2023 13:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([192.168.254.65]) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de with ESMTPSA id aZsHIBp+LWTeeAAAMHmgww (envelope-from ); Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:56:42 +0000 X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Inumbo-ID: b21a5398-d3b9-11ed-b464-930f4c7d94ae DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.com; s=susede1; t=1680703002; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=h7E8xLpIHHyBj6gOvbHVGHsCDEUl39NE+WedwK4I/34=; b=MxDaNNi+YFuqUHP7aB796xrZ4HmTYr/kmjo7qmjvN1Tpga2ne9dHvL83hwTuBHGVdDsq/w OEPIkmzi/YgnHxOG9TOPMcAeoa923Ia58r3Y3uMV0P71qbeBjCsURWOcMwHXTz9XNH3A8X xW0xz7fVyw2rQyr01HbJ/MM/MfsnOFI= From: Juergen Gross To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Juergen Gross , Andrew Cooper , George Dunlap , Jan Beulich , Julien Grall , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] xen: update CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO help text Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 15:56:29 +0200 Message-Id: <20230405135629.21829-3-jgross@suse.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.35.3 In-Reply-To: <20230405135629.21829-1-jgross@suse.com> References: <20230405135629.21829-1-jgross@suse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Update the help text of the CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO option to be a little bit more specific. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross --- V2: - expand help text, especially mentioning INSTALL_EFI_STRIP (Jan Beulich) V3: - expand help text even more (Jan Beulich) --- xen/Kconfig.debug | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/xen/Kconfig.debug b/xen/Kconfig.debug index 279dbe8274..94e818ee09 100644 --- a/xen/Kconfig.debug +++ b/xen/Kconfig.debug @@ -129,7 +129,15 @@ config DEBUG_INFO bool "Compile Xen with debug info" default DEBUG help - If you say Y here the resulting Xen will include debugging info - resulting in a larger binary image. + Say Y here if you want to build Xen with debug information. This + information is needed e.g. for doing crash dump analysis of the + hypervisor via the "crash" tool. + Saying Y will increase the size of the xen-syms and xen.efi + binaries. In case the space on the EFI boot partition is rather + limited, you may want to install a stripped variant of xen.efi in + the EFI boot partition (look for "INSTALL_EFI_STRIP" in + docs/misc/efi.pandoc for more information - when not using + "make install-xen" for installing xen.efi, stripping needs to be + done outside the Xen build environment). endmenu