• Masahiro Yamada's avatar
    kallsyms: ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols · d32b55f4
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    Every EXPORT_SYMBOL creates __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_*, which
    consumes 15-20% of the kallsyms entries.
    
    For example, on the system built from the x86_64 defconfig,
    
      $ cat /proc/kallsyms | wc
         129527    388581   5685465
      $ cat /proc/kallsyms | grep __kstrtab | wc
          23489     70467   1187932
    
    We already ignore __crc_* symbols populated by EXPORT_SYMBOL, so it
    should be fine to ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* as well.
    
    This makes vmlinux a bit smaller.
    
      $ size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
      22785374        8559694 1413328 32758396        1f3da7c vmlinux.before
      22785374        8137806 1413328 32336508        1ed6a7c vmlinux.after
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
    d32b55f4
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