Kbuild: Add option to set -femit-struct-debug-baseonly

Newer gcc has a -femit-struct-debug-baseonly option that dramatically
reduces the size of object files with debug info. What it does
is to only emit type information for structures when the structures
are defined in the same file or in a header file.

This means the type information for most headers are not included.
This is not good when the type information is actually
needed (e.g. with kgdb or systemtap)

But often kernel hackers only care about line numbers and don't
need all the type information anyways. In this case setting
the option can be a big win:

A build dir for a specific x86-64 configuration with gcc 4.5
shrunk from 2.3G to 1.2G. The compilation was also nearly a minute
faster.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[mmarek: reformatted help text]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index dceb4f1..e1dfb90 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -557,6 +557,10 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -g
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= -gdwarf-2
 endif
 
+ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
+KBUILD_CFLAGS 	+= $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly)
+endif
+
 ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -pg
 endif