Re: [PATCH v8 4/9] kallsyms: Reduce the memory occupied by kallsyms_seqs_of_names[]

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On 2022/11/2 20:00, David Laight wrote:
> From: Zhen Lei
>> Sent: 02 November 2022 08:49
>>
>> kallsyms_seqs_of_names[] records the symbol index sorted by address, the
>> maximum value in kallsyms_seqs_of_names[] is the number of symbols. And
>> 2^24 = 16777216, which means that three bytes are enough to store the
>> index. This can help us save (1 * kallsyms_num_syms) bytes of memory.
> 
> You can get the compiler to do the 'heavy lifting' for you.
> 
> struct uint24 {
>     unsigned int val24:24;
> } __attribute__((packed));

This method depends on byte order. If the byte order of the tool is
different from that of the kernel, it's a problem. For example,
cross-compile PowerPC kernel on x86.

> 
> struct uint24 table[1024];
> 
> works fine.
> 
> 	David
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Regards,
  Zhen Lei



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