1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 56240e724d9a..563065df29a5 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -968,12 +968,18 @@ config KALLSYMS_ALL
         bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
         help
-           Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
-           OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
-           symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 
-           and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
-
-           Say N.
+           Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
+           OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
+           sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
+           cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
+           names of variables from the data sections, etc).
+
+           This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
+           image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
+           size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
+           something like this).
+
+           Say N unless you really need all symbols.
 
 config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
         bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"