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From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 14/25] kbuild: lto: remove duplicate dependencies from .mod files
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 10:47:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABCJKue4Gg7gGA3cgpP-uiThxR=5Qh2Pq+KctGJN_GtStpf9Fg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNAT350QjusoYCQEHDdoxAfTZjj82xp86O1qoNF=0u0PN-g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:00 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 7:50 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 05:31:52PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > > With LTO, llvm-nm prints out symbols for each archive member
> > > separately, which results in a lot of duplicate dependencies in the
> > > .mod file when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_SYMS is enabled. When a module
> > > consists of several compilation units, the output can exceed the
> > > default xargs command size limit and split the dependency list to
> > > multiple lines, which results in used symbols getting trimmed.
> > >
> > > This change removes duplicate dependencies, which will reduce the
> > > probability of this happening and makes .mod files smaller and
> > > easier to read.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> >
> > Hi Masahiro,
> >
> > This appears to be a general improvement as well. This looks like it can
> > land without depending on the rest of the series.
>
> It cannot.
> Adding "sort -u" is pointless without the rest of the series
> since the symbol duplication happens only with Clang LTO.
>
> This is not a solution.
> "reduce the probability of this happening" well describes it.
>
> I wrote a different patch.

Great, thanks for looking into this. I'll drop this patch from the next version.

Sami

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-13  0:31 [PATCH v6 00/25] Add support for Clang LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 01/25] kbuild: preprocess module linker script Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 02/25] objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-14 16:50   ` Ingo Molnar
2020-10-14 18:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-15 20:10       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 03/25] objtool: Don't autodetect vmlinux.o Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 04/25] tracing: move function tracer options to Kconfig Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 05/25] tracing: add support for objtool mcount Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 06/25] x86, build: use " Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 07/25] treewide: remove DISABLE_LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-14 22:43   ` Kees Cook
2020-10-17  1:46     ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 08/25] kbuild: add support for Clang LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 09/25] kbuild: lto: fix module versioning Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 10/25] objtool: Split noinstr validation from --vmlinux Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 11/25] kbuild: lto: postpone objtool Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 12/25] kbuild: lto: limit inlining Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 13/25] kbuild: lto: merge module sections Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-14 22:49   ` Kees Cook
2020-10-20 16:42     ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 14/25] kbuild: lto: remove duplicate dependencies from .mod files Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-14 22:50   ` Kees Cook
2020-12-03 17:59     ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-12-03 18:47       ` Sami Tolvanen [this message]
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 15/25] init: lto: ensure initcall ordering Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 16/25] init: lto: fix PREL32 relocations Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-14 22:53   ` Kees Cook
2020-10-15  0:12   ` Jann Horn
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 17/25] PCI: Fix PREL32 relocations for LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-14 22:58   ` Kees Cook
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 18/25] modpost: lto: strip .lto from module names Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 19/25] scripts/mod: disable LTO for empty.c Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 20/25] efi/libstub: disable LTO Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:31 ` [PATCH v6 21/25] drivers/misc/lkdtm: disable LTO for rodata.o Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:32 ` [PATCH v6 22/25] x86/asm: annotate indirect jumps Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-14 22:46   ` Kees Cook
2020-10-14 23:23   ` Jann Horn
2020-10-15 10:22     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-15 20:39       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-20 16:45         ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-20 18:52           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-20 19:24             ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-21  8:56               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-21  9:08                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-21  9:32                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-21 21:27                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-22  7:25                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-23 17:48                       ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-23 18:04                         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-10-21 15:01                 ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-22  0:22                 ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-23 17:36                   ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-11-09 23:11                     ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-11-10  2:29                       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-11-10  3:18                         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-10  4:48                         ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-11-10 16:11                           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-11-10 17:46                         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-11-10 18:59                           ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-11-13 19:54                             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-11-13 20:24                               ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-11-13 20:52                                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-11-13 22:34                                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-11-13 22:54                                   ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-11-13 22:56                                     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-11-13 23:31                                   ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-11-14  0:49                                     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-21  9:51             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-21 18:30               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-13  0:32 ` [PATCH v6 23/25] x86, vdso: disable LTO only for vDSO Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:32 ` [PATCH v6 24/25] x86, cpu: disable LTO for cpu.c Sami Tolvanen
2020-10-13  0:32 ` [PATCH v6 25/25] x86, build: allow LTO_CLANG and THINLTO to be selected Sami Tolvanen

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