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    Makefile.debug: support for -gz=zstd · 9f8fe647
    Nick Desaulniers authored
    Make DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED a choice; DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE is the
    default, DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB uses zlib,
    DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD uses zstd.
    
    This renames the existing KConfig option DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED to
    DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB so users upgrading may need to reset the new
    Kconfigs.
    
    Some quick N=1 measurements with du, /usr/bin/time -v, and bloaty:
    
    clang-16, x86_64 defconfig plus
    CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE=y:
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:55.43
    488M vmlinux
    27.6%   136Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_info
     6.1%  30.2Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_str_offsets
     3.5%  17.2Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_line
     3.3%  16.3Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_loclists
     0.9%  4.62Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_str
    
    clang-16, x86_64 defconfig plus
    CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB=y:
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 1:00.35
    385M vmlinux
    21.8%  85.4Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_info
     2.1%  8.26Mi   0.0%    ...
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