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[3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets

Message ID 1453280738-18721-4-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
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Ard Biesheuvel Jan. 20, 2016, 9:05 a.m. UTC
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 250 KB for a defconfig build.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

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BEFORE:
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2.5.0

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Ard Biesheuvel Jan. 20, 2016, 10:04 a.m. UTC | #1
On 20 January 2016 at 10:43, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:05:37AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

>> 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 250 KB for a defconfig build.

>>

>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

>> ---

>>

>> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig

>> index dbeeb3a049f2..588160fd1db0 100644

>> --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig

>> +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig

>> @@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ config S390

>>       select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API

>>       select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS

>>       select HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING

>> +     select KALLSYMS_TEXT_RELATIVE if 64BIT

>

> Please remove the "if 64BIT" since s390 is always 64BIT in the meantime.

> Tested on s390 and everything seems still to work ;)

>

> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

>


Thanks! Did you take a look at /proc/kallsyms, by any chance? It
should look identical with and without these patches
Ard Biesheuvel Jan. 20, 2016, 10:18 a.m. UTC | #2
On 20 January 2016 at 11:17, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:04:24AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

>> On 20 January 2016 at 10:43, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:

>> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:05:37AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

>> >> 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 250 KB for a defconfig build.

>> >>

>> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

>> >> ---

>> >>

>> >> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig

>> >> index dbeeb3a049f2..588160fd1db0 100644

>> >> --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig

>> >> +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig

>> >> @@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ config S390

>> >>       select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API

>> >>       select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS

>> >>       select HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING

>> >> +     select KALLSYMS_TEXT_RELATIVE if 64BIT

>> >

>> > Please remove the "if 64BIT" since s390 is always 64BIT in the meantime.

>> > Tested on s390 and everything seems still to work ;)

>> >

>> > Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

>> >

>>

>> Thanks! Did you take a look at /proc/kallsyms, by any chance? It

>> should look identical with and without these patches

>

> Close to identical, since the generated code and offsets change a bit with

> your new config option enabled and disabled. But only those parts that are

> linked behind kernel/kallsyms.c.

>

> However I did run a couple of ftrace, kprobes tests and enforced call

> backtraces. Everything still works.

>

> So it looks all good.

>


Thanks a lot!
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Patch

=======
$ size vmlinux
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
12329586	3107008	14727792	30164386	1cc45a2	vmlinux

$ readelf -S .tmp_kallsyms2.o
There are 9 section headers, starting at offset 0x125b50:

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type             Address           Offset
       Size              EntSize          Flags  Link  Info  Align
  ...
  [ 4] .rodata           PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000040
       0000000000125ad0  0000000000000000   A       0     0     8
  [ 5] .rela.rodata      RELA             0000000000000000  00125f28
       000000000015ead8  0000000000000018           7     4     8
  [ 6] .shstrtab         STRTAB           0000000000000000  00125b10
       0000000000000039  0000000000000000           0     0     1
  ...

$ ls -l arch/s390/boot/bzImage
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ard ard 5234224 Jan 20 08:22 arch/s390/boot/bzImage

AFTER:
======
$ size vmlinux
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
12088114	3102912	14727792	29918818	1c88662	vmlinux

$ readelf -S .tmp_kallsyms2.o
There are 8 section headers, starting at offset 0xeb428:

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type             Address           Offset
  ...
  [ 4] .rodata           PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000040
       00000000000eb3b0  0000000000000000   A       0     0     8
  [ 5] .shstrtab         STRTAB           0000000000000000  000eb3f0
       0000000000000034  0000000000000000           0     0     1
  ...

$ ls -l arch/s390/boot/bzImage
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ard ard 5224256 Jan 20 08:23 arch/s390/boot/bzImage
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 arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index dbeeb3a049f2..588160fd1db0 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@  config S390
 	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
 	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
 	select HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
+	select KALLSYMS_TEXT_RELATIVE if 64BIT
 	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
 	select NO_BOOTMEM
 	select OLD_SIGACTION