hi, On the x86_64 platform we faced a problem of debugging modules using KGDB. For working around the problem, we need the compile the file 'arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c' without the generation of debugging information. For this i moved the 'vsyscall.c' from the directory 'arch/x86_64/kernel' to a new directory 'arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall/' . The make file in this new directory does not generate the debugging information for the file 'vsyscall.c'. Please let me know if there is some other way by which i can specify a different set of compilation flags for a single file in the directory. this will help me in not moving the file in a new directory. Regards, Mithlesh Thukral