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Message-ID: <20231012194711.3288031-1-jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:47:01 -0600
From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: david@...hat.com, Liam.Howlett@...cle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 00/10] how to reclaim unneeded vmlinux memory ?
For builtin modules, dynamic-debug allocates blocks of memory into
DATA, via vmlinux.lds.h.
dyndbg's struct _ddebug has fields: modname, filename, function, which
keeps the the code's structural/organizational info used to enable &
prefix prdbg callsites.
The linker packs the callsites in-order, which means the repetition in
those 3 columns can be compactly encoded in non-overlapping intervals.
So this saves each unique column-val and its interval into a
maple-tree per column, and retrieves them as needed with accessors.
It also splits out _ddebug_site and __dyndbg_sites section, and no
longer needs the section, so that block is ready to reclaim.
Somethings wrong with patch-9, but it seems worth showing around.
Jim Cromie (10):
dyndbg: prep to isolate 3 repetetive fields
dyndbg: split __dyndbg_sites section out from __dyndbg
dyndbg: add 2nd cursor pair to init-fn
dyndbg: save _ddebug_site mod,file,func fields into maple-trees
dyndbg: avoid _ddebug.site in ddebug_condense_sites
dyndbg: add site_*() macros to avoid using _ddebug.site
dyndbg: wire in __desc_*() functions
dyndbg: drop _ddebug.site member
dyndbg: add dd_clear_range to prune mtrees
dyndbg: cache the dynamically generated prefixes per callsite
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 +
include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 40 +++--
kernel/module/main.c | 3 +
lib/dynamic_debug.c | 238 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
4 files changed, 252 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
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2.41.0
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