From: Felix Fietkau Subject: kernel: add a config option for keeping the kallsyms table uncompressed, saving ~9kb kernel size after lzma on ar71xx [john@phrozen.org: added to my upstream queue 30.12.2016] lede-commit: e0e3509b5ce2ccf93d4d67ea907613f5f7ec2eed Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau --- init/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ kernel/kallsyms.c | 8 ++++++++ scripts/kallsyms.c | 12 ++++++++++++ scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 4 ++++ 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+) --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1443,6 +1443,17 @@ config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW the unaligned access emulation. see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference +config KALLSYMS_UNCOMPRESSED + bool "Keep kallsyms uncompressed" + depends on KALLSYMS + help + Normally kallsyms contains compressed symbols (using a token table), + reducing the uncompressed kernel image size. Keeping the symbol table + uncompressed significantly improves the size of this part in compressed + kernel images. + + Say N unless you need compressed kernel images to be small. + config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM bool --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c @@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ static unsigned int kallsyms_expand_symb * For every byte on the compressed symbol data, copy the table * entry for that byte. */ +#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS_UNCOMPRESSED + memcpy(result, data + 1, len - 1); + result += len - 1; + len = 0; +#endif while (len) { tptr = &kallsyms_token_table[kallsyms_token_index[*data]]; data++; @@ -112,6 +117,9 @@ tail: */ static char kallsyms_get_symbol_type(unsigned int off) { +#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS_UNCOMPRESSED + return kallsyms_names[off + 1]; +#endif /* * Get just the first code, look it up in the token table, * and return the first char from this token. --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static struct addr_range percpu_range = static struct sym_entry **table; static unsigned int table_size, table_cnt; static int all_symbols; +static int uncompressed; static int absolute_percpu; static int base_relative; @@ -486,6 +487,9 @@ static void write_src(void) free(markers); + if (uncompressed) + return; + output_label("kallsyms_token_table"); off = 0; for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) { @@ -537,6 +541,9 @@ static unsigned char *find_token(unsigne { int i; + if (uncompressed) + return NULL; + for (i = 0; i < len - 1; i++) { if (str[i] == token[0] && str[i+1] == token[1]) return &str[i]; @@ -609,6 +616,9 @@ static void optimize_result(void) { int i, best; + if (uncompressed) + return; + /* using the '\0' symbol last allows compress_symbols to use standard * fast string functions */ for (i = 255; i >= 0; i--) { @@ -773,6 +783,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) absolute_percpu = 1; else if (strcmp(argv[i], "--base-relative") == 0) base_relative = 1; + else if (strcmp(argv[i], "--uncompressed") == 0) + uncompressed = 1; else usage(); } --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh @@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ kallsyms() kallsymopt="${kallsymopt} --base-relative" fi + if [ -n "${CONFIG_KALLSYMS_UNCOMPRESSED}" ]; then + kallsymopt="${kallsymopt} --uncompressed" + fi + info KSYMS ${2} ${NM} -n ${1} | scripts/kallsyms ${kallsymopt} > ${2} }