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Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases
Date 2021-11-30 13:40 +0100
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On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 05:19 +0200, Горбешко Богдан wrote:
> On 30.11.2021 01:57, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > About 59 MiB, so again most of the increase.
> > 
> > It appears that BTF in modules was enabled in Linux 5.11 by
> > <https://git.kernel.org/linus/5f9ae91f7c0dbbc4195e2a6c8eedcaeb5b9e4cbb>
> 
> So the patch that was supposed to drastically reduce the size of modules 
> by extracting the debugging info to a separate deduplicated file, 
> actually increased it even more? Sounds pretty ironic.
> 
> Or did the deduplication finally make BTFs reasonably small to be 
> included by default, as they were much larger before and thus were disabled?

It is confusing, yes.  I *think* that the commit message is actually
saying that it makes the module BTF section smaller than in an earlier
version that was not applied.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

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Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases Bohdan Horbeshko <bodqhrohro@gmail.com> - 2021-11-07 03:00 +0100
  Bug#998716: marked as done (linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The  package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2021-11-12 23:30 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#998716 closed by Salvatore Bonaccorso  <carnil@debian.org> (Re: Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The  package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2021-11-13 09:20 +0100
  Bug#998716: closed by Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> (Re: Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases) Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2021-11-13 09:20 +0100
  Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2021-11-30 01:30 +0100
    Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases Горбешко Богдан  <bodqhrohro@gmail.com> - 2021-11-30 04:30 +0100
      Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2021-11-30 13:40 +0100
    Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com> - 2021-11-30 11:20 +0100
      Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2021-11-30 20:30 +0100
        Bug#998716: linux-image-5.14.0-2-amd64: The package size has grown a lot compared to 5.8/5.10 releases Fabian Grünbichler <fabian.gruenbichler@student.tuwien.ac.at> - 2021-12-26 17:50 +0100

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