On 2022/11/15 1:04, Nick Alcock wrote: > On 13 Nov 2022, Luis Chamberlain outgrape: > >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 01:41:28PM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote: >>> The mapping consists of three new symbols >> >> The entire commit log does not describe *why*. > > ... because it's in the other commit logs and the cover letter. I can > repeat the motivation in this log too if you like. > >> Can I also trouble you to rebase on top of modules-next [0] > > Sure! > >> Does the kallsyms loop more than 3 times now with Zhen Lei's work and >> your new symbols on top on a allyesconfig build? > > I don't understand the question, sorry. If this is about the number of > KALLSYMS invocations in the kernel build, that should be unchanged by > this patch. This was an explicit design goal because it's quite slow to > run kallsyms more times and I was already feeling guilty about having to > bring back the tristate recursion. > > I haven't tried it with Zhen Lei's work: will try for the next > iteration, as a matter of course after the rebase. (And, looking at the > patch series at the top of modules-next, wow is that quite a hefty > performance improvement. And a hefty memory usage increase :( I have a > horrible feeling that one of my machines won't have enough memory to > boot after this goes in, but it was terribly outdated anyway.) It's only about 500K. It shouldn't be a problem. Your machine boot from flash? > . > -- Regards, Zhen Lei
