[PATCH 3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets

From	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets
Date	2016-01-20 10:10 +0100
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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 250 KB for a defconfig build.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
---

BEFORE:
=======
$ size vmlinux
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
12329586	3107008	14727792	30164386	1cc45a2	vmlinux

$ readelf -S .tmp_kallsyms2.o
There are 9 section headers, starting at offset 0x125b50:

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type             Address           Offset
       Size              EntSize          Flags  Link  Info  Align
  ...
  [ 4] .rodata           PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000040
       0000000000125ad0  0000000000000000   A       0     0     8
  [ 5] .rela.rodata      RELA             0000000000000000  00125f28
       000000000015ead8  0000000000000018           7     4     8
  [ 6] .shstrtab         STRTAB           0000000000000000  00125b10
       0000000000000039  0000000000000000           0     0     1
  ...

$ ls -l arch/s390/boot/bzImage
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ard ard 5234224 Jan 20 08:22 arch/s390/boot/bzImage

AFTER:
======
$ size vmlinux
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
12088114	3102912	14727792	29918818	1c88662	vmlinux

$ readelf -S .tmp_kallsyms2.o
There are 8 section headers, starting at offset 0xeb428:

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type             Address           Offset
  ...
  [ 4] .rodata           PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000040
       00000000000eb3b0  0000000000000000   A       0     0     8
  [ 5] .shstrtab         STRTAB           0000000000000000  000eb3f0
       0000000000000034  0000000000000000           0     0     1
  ...

$ ls -l arch/s390/boot/bzImage
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ard ard 5224256 Jan 20 08:23 arch/s390/boot/bzImage
---
 arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index dbeeb3a049f2..588160fd1db0 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ config S390
 	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
 	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
 	select HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
+	select KALLSYMS_TEXT_RELATIVE if 64BIT
 	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
 	select NO_BOOTMEM
 	select OLD_SIGACTION
-- 
2.5.0

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[PATCH 3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-01-20 10:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit  targets Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> - 2016-01-20 10:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-01-20 11:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit  targets Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> - 2016-01-20 11:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-01-20 11:20 +0100

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