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Sat, 03 Oct 2026 05:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:19:02 +0000 Message-Id: Cc: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 00/12] bpf: make the vmlinux BTF an on-demand loadable module (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=m) to save ~5.4 MB memory From: "Alexei Starovoitov" To: "Alan Maguire" In-Reply-To: <7fe71959-1c58-4b6f-9019-6f886683530e@oracle.com> References: <7fe71959-1c58-4b6f-9019-6f886683530e@oracle.com> X-Mailer: mkdraft (claude review draft; edit before sending) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: bpf@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Sat, Oct 03, 2026 at 12:45 PM Alan Maguire wrote: > The only overall cost is if when we wind up using vmlinux BTF with the compressed > .BTF section, since we have to do a full vmlinux BTF allocation (on top of the > spac taken up by the compressed .BTF section) right? So slight penalty if vmlinux > is used, but big gain if not. I think it can be copied compressed into vmalloc area and freed after decompress, so memory usage should be exactly the same.