From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why are 2.6 modules so huge?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:56:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xd683fsfq.fsf@kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 403C4E98.6010107@t-online.de
Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de> writes:
> Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> My 2.6.3 vfat.ko is 15365 bytes. Maybe you enabled kernel debugging
>> symbols.
>>
>
> % ll /lib/modules/2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat/
> total 16
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14232 Feb 19 07:43 vfat.ko
>
> Assuming that you are on i686:
>
> A size difference of 1 KByte (about 7%) is remarkable. Which
> gcc did you use for building 2.6.3?
I used gcc 3.3.2. Here's an objdump -h of that file:
/lib/modules/2.6.3/kernel/fs/vfat/vfat.ko: file format elf32-i386
Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .text 0000209c 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
1 .init.text 00000013 00000000 00000000 000020d0 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
2 .exit.text 00000013 00000000 00000000 000020e3 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE
3 .rodata.str1.1 0000004c 00000000 00000000 000020f6 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
4 .rodata.str1.32 00000073 00000000 00000000 00002160 2**5
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
5 __ksymtab_strings 00000046 00000000 00000000 000021d3 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
6 __ksymtab 00000030 00000000 00000000 0000221c 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA
7 .modinfo 00000059 00000000 00000000 00002260 2**5
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
8 .data 00000120 00000000 00000000 000022c0 2**5
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA
9 .gnu.linkonce.this_module 00000200 00000000 00000000 00002400 2**7
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, DATA, LINK_ONCE_DISCARD
10 .bss 00000000 00000000 00000000 00002600 2**2
ALLOC
11 .comment 00000036 00000000 00000000 00002600 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-25 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-24 15:30 Why are 2.6 modules so huge? Ian Soboroff
2004-02-24 15:40 ` Norberto Bensa
2004-02-24 15:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-25 7:28 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-02-25 8:56 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2004-02-24 15:50 ` Brian Gerst
2004-02-24 16:03 ` Ian Soboroff
2004-02-24 15:50 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-02-24 16:05 ` James Morris
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