linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/10] mm, util: Use dup

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Message-ID: <CALF0-+W9202SjK7EfV-ucP8j7mAcRf5U1PUi5j8bs4N+ABhyfg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:51:29 -0300
From:	Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] mm, util: Use dup_user to duplicate user memory

Andrew,

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:15:38 -0300
> Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> > This patch increases util.o's text size by 238 bytes.  A larger kernel
>> > with a worsened cache footprint.
>> >
>> > And we did this to get marginally improved tracing output?  This sounds
>> > like a bad tradeoff to me.
>> >
>>
>> Mmm, that's bad tradeoff indeed.
>> It's certainly odd since the patch shouldn't increase the text size
>> *that* much.
>> Is it too much to ask that you send your kernel config and gcc version.
>
> x86_64 allmodconfig with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n,
> CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK=n. gcc-4.4.4.
>

I'll try that.


>> My compilation (x86 kernel in gcc 4.7.1) shows a kernel less bloated:
>>
>> $ readelf -s util-dup-user.o | grep dup_user
>>    161: 00001c10   108 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 memdup_user
>>    169: 00001df0   159 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 strndup_user
>> $ readelf -s util.o | grep dup_user
>>    161: 00001c10   108 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 memdup_user
>>    169: 00001df0    98 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 strndup_user
>>
>> $ size util.o
>>    text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>   18319          2077       0   20396    4fac util.o
>> $ size util-dup-user.o
>>    text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>   18367          2077       0   20444    4fdc util-dup-user.o
>>
>> Am I doing anything wrong?
>
> Dunno - it could be a config thing.
>

I'm kind of lost. The patch really shouldn't fatten the kernel this way :-(

The patch was meant to improve tracing for memory tracking,
which in turn would be used to reduce memory footprint.
So, definitely I don't want to increase kernel text size.

I'll test that kernel config and see what I can do.

Thanks,
Ezequiel.
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