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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] kallsyms: ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:02:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220926090229.643134-5-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220926090229.643134-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>

Every EXPORT_SYMBOL creates __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_*, which
consumes 15-20% of the kallsyms entries.

For 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>
---

 scripts/mksysmap | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/mksysmap b/scripts/mksysmap
index 75f3dfd1c156..16a08b8ef2f8 100755
--- a/scripts/mksysmap
+++ b/scripts/mksysmap
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 #  $                    - local symbols for ARM, MIPS, etc.
 #  .L                   - local labels, .LBB,.Ltmpxxx,.L__unnamed_xx,.LASANPC, etc.
 #  __crc_               - modversions
+#  __kstrtab_           - EXPORT_SYMBOL (symbol name)
+#  __kstrtabns_         - EXPORT_SYMBOL (namespace)
 #
 # Ignored symbols:
 #  L0                   - for LoongArch?
@@ -52,5 +54,7 @@ $NM -n $1 | grep -v		\
 	-e ' \$'		\
 	-e ' \.L'		\
 	-e ' __crc_'		\
+	-e ' __kstrtab_'	\
+	-e ' __kstrtabns_'	\
 	-e ' L0$'		\
 > $2
-- 
2.34.1


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-26  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-26  9:02 [PATCH 1/5] mksysmap: update comment about __crc_* Masahiro Yamada
2022-09-26  9:02 ` [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: reuse mksysmap output for kallsyms Masahiro Yamada
2022-09-26  9:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] kallsyms: drop duplicated ignore patterns from kallsyms.c Masahiro Yamada
2022-09-26  9:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] kallsyms: take the input file instead of reading stdin Masahiro Yamada
2022-09-26  9:02 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]

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