... Running bpftool btf dump file vmlinux |grep "] VAR"
$ bpftool btf dump file vmlinux |grep "] VAR" | wc -l 4852 $ bpftool btf dump file vmlinux |grep "] VAR" | tail -5 [136994] VAR '_alloc_tag_cntr.9' type_id=703, linkage=static [137003] VAR '_alloc_tag_cntr.5' type_id=703, linkage=static [137004] VAR '_alloc_tag_cntr.7' type_id=703, linkage=static [137005] VAR '_alloc_tag_cntr.17' type_id=703, linkage=static [137018] VAR '_alloc_tag_cntr.14' type_id=703, linkage=static
...should give us a sense of what's going on. I only see 375 per-cpu variables when I do this so maybe there's something kernel-config-specific that might explain why you have so many more?
Yes, as mentioned earlier, this is specifically due to the .config. The .config is a huge distro configuration that has a lot of modules enabled. thanks, -- John Hubbard NVIDIA
