From 10e68b02c861ccf2b3adb59d3f0c10dc6b5e3ace Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Desaulniers Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 10:18:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save the size of vmlinux images to compress the information in the debug information sections. Note: this debug info is typically split off from the final compressed kernel image, which is why vmlinux is what's used in conjunction with GDB. Minimizing the debug info size should have no impact on boot times, or final compressed kernel image size. All of the debug sections will have a `C` flag set. $ readelf -S $ bloaty vmlinux.gcc75.compressed.dwarf4 -- \ vmlinux.gcc75.uncompressed.dwarf4 FILE SIZE VM SIZE -------------- -------------- +0.0% +18 [ = ] 0 [Unmapped] -73.3% -114Ki [ = ] 0 .debug_aranges -76.2% -2.01Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_frame -73.6% -2.89Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_str -80.7% -4.66Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_abbrev -82.9% -4.88Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_ranges -70.5% -9.04Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_line -79.3% -10.9Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_loc -39.5% -88.6Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_info -18.2% -123Mi [ = ] 0 TOTAL $ bloaty vmlinux.clang11.compressed.dwarf4 -- \ vmlinux.clang11.uncompressed.dwarf4 FILE SIZE VM SIZE -------------- -------------- +0.0% +23 [ = ] 0 [Unmapped] -65.6% -871 [ = ] 0 .debug_aranges -77.4% -1.84Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_frame -82.9% -2.33Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_abbrev -73.1% -2.43Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_str -84.8% -3.07Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_ranges -65.9% -8.62Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_line -86.2% -40.0Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_loc -42.0% -64.1Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_info -22.1% -122Mi [ = ] 0 TOTAL For x86_64 defconfig + LLVM=1 (before): Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 3:22.03 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 43856 For x86_64 defconfig + LLVM=1 (after): Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 3:32.52 Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 1566776 Thanks to: Nick Clifton helped us to provide the minimal binutils version. Sedat Dilek found an increase in size of debug .deb package. Cc: Nick Clifton Suggested-by: David Blaikie Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- Makefile | 6 ++++++ lib/Kconfig.debug | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 48a2dfaf3bf3..2df903429d31 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -825,6 +825,12 @@ DEBUG_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly) \ $(call cc-option,-fno-var-tracking) endif +ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED +DEBUG_CFLAGS += -gz=zlib +KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,--compress-debug-sections=zlib +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += --compress-debug-sections=zlib +endif + KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(DEBUG_CFLAGS) export DEBUG_CFLAGS diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 21d9c5f6e7ec..d7da101bccc8 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -213,6 +213,23 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too. Only works with newer gcc versions. +config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED + bool "Compressed debugging information" + depends on DEBUG_INFO + depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) + depends on $(as-option,-Wa$(comma)--compress-debug-sections=zlib) + depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) + help + Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang + 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. + + Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may find an increase in + size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the + debug info being compressed with zlib, then the object files being + recompressed with a different compression scheme. But this is still + preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even + larger. + config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files" depends on DEBUG_INFO