linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] x86_64: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets

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Message-Id: <1453280738-18721-5-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:05:38 +0100
From:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, x86@...nel.org,
	keescook@...omium.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	hpa@...or.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	mpe@...erman.id.au, mmarek@...e.cz, rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets

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@...aro.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