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Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 16:21:17 -0700
From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
Nick Clifton <nickc@...hat.com>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Changbin Du <changbin.du@...el.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
David Blaikie <blaikie@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Makefile: support compressed debug info
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:36 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save
> the size of vmlinux images to compress the information in the debug
> information sections. Note: this debug info is typically split off from
> the final compressed kernel image, which is why vmlinux is what's used
> in conjunction with GDB. Minimizing the debug info size should have no
> impact on boot times, or final compressed kernel image size.
>
> All of the debug sections will have a `C` flag set.
> $ readelf -S <object file>
>
> $ bloaty vmlinux.gcc75.compressed.dwarf4 -- \
> vmlinux.gcc75.uncompressed.dwarf4
>
> FILE SIZE VM SIZE
> -------------- --------------
> +0.0% +18 [ = ] 0 [Unmapped]
> -73.3% -114Ki [ = ] 0 .debug_aranges
> -76.2% -2.01Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_frame
> -73.6% -2.89Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_str
> -80.7% -4.66Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_abbrev
> -82.9% -4.88Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_ranges
> -70.5% -9.04Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_line
> -79.3% -10.9Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_loc
> -39.5% -88.6Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_info
> -18.2% -123Mi [ = ] 0 TOTAL
>
> $ bloaty vmlinux.clang11.compressed.dwarf4 -- \
> vmlinux.clang11.uncompressed.dwarf4
>
> FILE SIZE VM SIZE
> -------------- --------------
> +0.0% +23 [ = ] 0 [Unmapped]
> -65.6% -871 [ = ] 0 .debug_aranges
> -77.4% -1.84Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_frame
> -82.9% -2.33Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_abbrev
> -73.1% -2.43Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_str
> -84.8% -3.07Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_ranges
> -65.9% -8.62Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_line
> -86.2% -40.0Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_loc
> -42.0% -64.1Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_info
> -22.1% -122Mi [ = ] 0 TOTAL
>
> For x86_64 defconfig + LLVM=1 (before):
> Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 3:22.03
> Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 43856
>
> For x86_64 defconfig + LLVM=1 (after):
> Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 3:32.52
> Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 1566776
>
> Suggested-by: David Blaikie <blakie@...gle.com>
Sorry, I have mistyped David's email, it should be:
Suggested-by: David Blaikie <blaikie@...gle.com>
(I missed the first `i` in the last name)
> Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>
> Suggested-by: Nick Clifton <nickc@...hat.com>
> Suggested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
> ---
> Changes V1 -> V2:
> * rebase on linux-next.
> * Add assembler flags as per Fangrui.
> * Add note about KDEB_COMPRESS+scripts/package/builddeb
> as per Sedat and Masahiro.
> * Add note about bintutils version requirements as per Nick C.
> * Add note about measured increased build time and max RSS.
>
> Makefile | 6 ++++++
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 71687bfe1cd9..be8835296754 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -822,6 +822,12 @@ DEBUG_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly) \
> $(call cc-option,-fno-var-tracking)
> endif
>
> +ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
> +DEBUG_CFLAGS += -gz=zlib
> +KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,--compress-debug-sections=zlib
> +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += --compress-debug-sections=zlib
> +endif
> +
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(DEBUG_CFLAGS)
> export DEBUG_CFLAGS
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index b8f023e054b9..5a423cbfaea4 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -225,6 +225,21 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
> DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
> Only works with newer gcc versions.
>
> +config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
> + bool "Compressed debugging information"
> + depends on DEBUG_INFO
> + depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib)
> + depends on $(as-option,-Wa,--compress-debug-sections=zlib)
> + depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib)
> + help
> + Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang
> + 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib.
> +
> + Users of dpkg-deb via scripts/package/builddeb may
> + wish to set the $KDEB_COMPRESS env var to "none" to avoid recompressing
> + the debug info again with a different compression scheme, which can
> + result in larger binaries.
> +
> config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
> bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
> depends on DEBUG_INFO
> --
> 2.26.2.761.g0e0b3e54be-goog
>
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
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