From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, x86@kernel.org,
keescook@chromium.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, mmarek@suse.cz,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:05:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453280738-18721-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453280738-18721-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
This enables the newly introduced text-relative kallsyms support when
building 64-bit targets. This cuts the size of the kallsyms address
table in half, reducing the memory footprint of the kernel .rodata
section by about 400 KB for a KALLSYMS_ALL build, and about 100 KB
reduction in compressed size. (with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y)
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
---
I tested this with my Ubuntu Wily box's config-4.2.0-23-generic, and
got the following results:
BEFORE:
=======
$ size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
12972949 2213240 1482752 16668941 fe590d vmlinux
$ readelf -S .tmp_kallsyms2.o |less
There are 9 section headers, starting at offset 0x3e0788:
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name Type Address Offset
Size EntSize Flags Link Info Align
...
[ 4] .rodata PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000040
00000000001c7738 0000000000000000 A 0 0 8
[ 5] .rela.rodata RELA 0000000000000000 001c7950
0000000000218e38 0000000000000018 I 7 4 8
[ 6] .shstrtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 001c7778
0000000000000039 0000000000000000 0 0 1
$ ls -l arch/x86/boot/bzImage
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ard ard 6893168 Jan 20 09:36 arch/x86/boot/bzImage
AFTER:
======
$ size vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
12604501 2213240 1482752 16300493 f8b9cd vmlinux
$ readelf -S .tmp_kallsyms2.o |less
There are 8 section headers, starting at offset 0x16dd10:
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name Type Address Offset
Size EntSize Flags Link Info Align
...
[ 4] .rodata PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000040
000000000016db20 0000000000000000 A 0 0 8
[ 5] .shstrtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 0016db60
0000000000000034 0000000000000000 0 0 1
...
$ ls -l arch/x86/boot/bzImage
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ard ard 6790224 Jan 19 22:24 arch/x86/boot/bzImage
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 4a10ba9e95da..180a94bda8d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
+ select KALLSYMS_TEXT_RELATIVE if X86_64
select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64
select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL if X86_32
select OLD_SIGACTION if X86_32
--
2.5.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-20 9:05 [PATCH 0/4] support for text-relative kallsyms table Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-20 9:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-20 19:13 ` Kees Cook
2016-01-20 9:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: enable text relative kallsyms for ppc64 Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-21 4:01 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-01-20 9:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-20 9:43 ` Heiko Carstens
2016-01-20 10:04 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-20 10:17 ` Heiko Carstens
2016-01-20 10:18 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-20 9:05 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2016-01-20 19:12 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86_64: " Kees Cook
2016-01-20 10:33 ` [PATCH 0/4] support for text-relative kallsyms table Ingo Molnar
2016-01-20 11:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-01-21 5:10 ` Rusty Russell
2016-01-21 6:45 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-21 8:32 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-27 3:46 ` Rusty Russell
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