On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 7:00 AM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built Linux <clang-built-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As debug information gets larger and larger, it helps significantly save > the size of vmlinux images to compress the information in the debug > information sections. Note: this debug info is typically split off from > the final compressed kernel image, which is why vmlinux is what's used > in conjunction with GDB. Minimizing the debug info size should have no > impact on boot times, or final compressed kernel image size. > > All of the debug sections will have a `C` flag set. > $ readelf -S <object file> > > $ bloaty vmlinux.gcc75.compressed.dwarf4 -- \ > vmlinux.gcc75.uncompressed.dwarf4 > > FILE SIZE VM SIZE > -------------- -------------- > +0.0% +18 [ = ] 0 [Unmapped] > -73.3% -114Ki [ = ] 0 .debug_aranges > -76.2% -2.01Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_frame > -73.6% -2.89Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_str > -80.7% -4.66Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_abbrev > -82.9% -4.88Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_ranges > -70.5% -9.04Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_line > -79.3% -10.9Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_loc > -39.5% -88.6Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_info > -18.2% -123Mi [ = ] 0 TOTAL > > $ bloaty vmlinux.clang11.compressed.dwarf4 -- \ > vmlinux.clang11.uncompressed.dwarf4 > > FILE SIZE VM SIZE > -------------- -------------- > +0.0% +23 [ = ] 0 [Unmapped] > -65.6% -871 [ = ] 0 .debug_aranges > -77.4% -1.84Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_frame > -82.9% -2.33Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_abbrev > -73.1% -2.43Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_str > -84.8% -3.07Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_ranges > -65.9% -8.62Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_line > -86.2% -40.0Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_loc > -42.0% -64.1Mi [ = ] 0 .debug_info > -22.1% -122Mi [ = ] 0 TOTAL > > For x86_64 defconfig + LLVM=1 (before): > Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 3:22.03 > Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 43856 > > For x86_64 defconfig + LLVM=1 (after): > Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 3:32.52 > Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 1566776 > > Suggested-by: David Blaikie <blaikie@xxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Nick Clifton <nickc@xxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by seems strange to me, but I decided to not be worried too much. Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
