Both kallsyms_num_syms and kallsyms_markers[] don't really need to use unsigned long as their (base) types; unsigned int fully suffices. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> --- v2: Drop unrelated hunk. --- kernel/kallsyms.c | 4 ++-- scripts/kallsyms.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- 4.19-rc2/kernel/kallsyms.c +++ 4.19-rc2-kallsyms-reduce-size/kernel/kallsyms.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ extern const u8 kallsyms_names[] __weak; * Tell the compiler that the count isn't in the small data section if the arch * has one (eg: FRV). */ -extern const unsigned long kallsyms_num_syms +extern const unsigned int kallsyms_num_syms __attribute__((weak, section(".rodata"))); extern const unsigned long kallsyms_relative_base @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ __attribute__((weak, section(".rodata")) extern const u8 kallsyms_token_table[] __weak; extern const u16 kallsyms_token_index[] __weak; -extern const unsigned long kallsyms_markers[] __weak; +extern const unsigned int kallsyms_markers[] __weak; /* * Expand a compressed symbol data into the resulting uncompressed string, --- 4.19-rc2/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ 4.19-rc2-kallsyms-reduce-size/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ static void write_src(void) } output_label("kallsyms_num_syms"); - printf("\tPTR\t%u\n", table_cnt); + printf("\t.long\t%u\n", table_cnt); printf("\n"); /* table of offset markers, that give the offset in the compressed stream @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ static void write_src(void) output_label("kallsyms_markers"); for (i = 0; i < ((table_cnt + 255) >> 8); i++) - printf("\tPTR\t%d\n", markers[i]); + printf("\t.long\t%u\n", markers[i]); printf("\n"); free(markers);