Every EXPORT_SYMBOL creates __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_*, which
consumes 15-20% of the kallsyms entries.
For example, on the system built from the x86_64 defconfig,
$ cat /proc/kallsyms | wc
129527 388581 5685465
$ cat /proc/kallsyms | grep __kstrtab | wc
23489 70467 1187932
We already ignore __crc_* symbols populated by EXPORT_SYMBOL, so it
should be fine to ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* as well.
This makes vmlinux a bit smaller.
$ size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after
text data bss dec hex filename
22785374 8559694 1413328 32758396 1f3da7c vmlinux.before
22785374 8137806 1413328 32336508 1ed6a7c vmlinux.after
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Now that kallsyms.c parses the output from mksysmap, some symbols have
already been dropped.
Move comments to scripts/mksysmap. Also, make the grep command readable.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Since commit 7b4537199a ("kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link,
removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS"), __crc_* symbols never become
absolute.
Keep ignoring __crc_*, but update the comment.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
When System.map was generated, the kernel used mksysmap to filter the
kernel symbols, we need to filter "L0" symbols in LoongArch architecture.
$ cat System.map | grep L0
9000000000221540 t L0
The L0 symbol exists in System.map, but not in .tmp_System.map. When
"cmp -s System.map .tmp_System.map" will show "Inconsistent kallsyms
data" error message in link-vmlinux.sh script.
Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
When System.map was generated, the kernel used mksysmap to
filter the kernel symbols, but all the symbols with the
second letter 'L' in the kernel were filtered out, not just
the symbols starting with 'dot + L'.
For example:
ashimida@ubuntu:~/linux$ cat System.map |grep ' .L'
ashimida@ubuntu:~/linux$ nm -n vmlinux |grep ' .L'
ffff0000088028e0 t bLength_show
......
ffff0000092e0408 b PLLP_OUTC_lock
ffff0000092e0410 b PLLP_OUTA_lock
The original intent should be to filter out all local symbols
starting with '.L', so the dot should be escaped.
Fixes: 00902e9847 ("mksysmap: Add h8300 local symbol pattern")
Signed-off-by: ashimida <ashimida@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
h8300's nm output have a lot of local symbols.
ex)
00000000 N .Lframe0
00000013 N .LLST1
00000026 N .LLST2
00000039 N .LLST3
0000004c N .LLST4
Added new pattern " .L" to filter rule.
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
The Makefiles call the respective interpreter explicitly, but this makes
it easier to use the scripts manually.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This reverts commit ad7a953c52.
And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL")
9bb482476c
These stripping patches has caused a set of issues:
1) People have reported compatibility issues with binutils due to
lack of support for `--strip-unneeded-symbols' with objcopy 2.15.92.0.2
Reported by: Wenji
2) ccache and distcc no longer works as expeced
Reported by: Ted, Roland, + others
3) The installed modules increased a lot in size
Reported by: Ted, Davej + others
Reported-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This patch changes the way __crc_ symbols are being resolved from
using ld to do so to using the assembler, thus allowing these symbols
to be marked local (the linker creates then as global ones) and hence
allow stripping (for modules) or ignoring (for vmlinux) them. While at
this, also strip other generated symbols during module installation.
One potentially debatable point is the handling of the flags passeed
to gcc when translating the intermediate assembly file into an object:
passing $(c_flags) unchanged doesn't work as gcc passes --gdwarf2 to
gas whenever is sees any -g* option, even for -g0, and despite the
fact that the compiler would have already produced all necessary debug
info in the C->assembly translation phase. I took the approach of just
filtering out all -g* options, but an alternative to such negative
filtering might be to have a positive filter which might, in the ideal
case allow just all the -Wa,* options to pass through.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
reported that he saw a lot of symbols like this:
0000000000000b24 N DW.aio.h.903a6d92.2
0000000000000bce N DW.task_io_accounting.h.8d8de327.0
0000000000000bec N DW.hrtimer.h.c23659c6.0
in his System.map / kallsyms output.
Simple solution is to skip all debugging
symbols (they are marked 'N').
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Masahiro Yamada