kbuild: make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux

[mirror_ubuntu-artful-kernel.git] / init / Kconfig

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f2f9b5362b48eebe3c50ff0d2f91a9130da429c4..7be4d3836745a049596e7be06b5e850c035b1f72 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -808,6 +808,14 @@ config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
           you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
 
 
+config STRIP_ASM_SYMS
+       bool "Strip assembler-generated symbols during link"
+       default n
+       help
+         Strip internal assembler-generated symbols during a link (symbols
+         that look like '.Lxxx') so they don't pollute the output of
+         get_wchan() and suchlike.
+
 config HOTPLUG
        bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
        default y