Commit 21a899f9 authored by Thomas Weißschuh's avatar Thomas Weißschuh Committed by Josh Poimboeuf

objtool: Optimize layout of struct symbol

Reduce the size of struct symbol on x86_64 from 208 to 200 bytes.
This structure is allocated a lot and never freed.

This reduces maximum memory usage while processing vmlinux.o from
2919716 KB to 2917988 KB (-0.5%) on my notebooks "localmodconfig".
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221216-objtool-memory-v2-6-17968f85a464@weissschuh.netSigned-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
parent 8045b8f0
...@@ -50,12 +50,11 @@ struct symbol { ...@@ -50,12 +50,11 @@ struct symbol {
GElf_Sym sym; GElf_Sym sym;
struct section *sec; struct section *sec;
char *name; char *name;
unsigned int idx; unsigned int idx, len;
unsigned char bind, type;
unsigned long offset; unsigned long offset;
unsigned int len;
unsigned long __subtree_last; unsigned long __subtree_last;
struct symbol *pfunc, *cfunc, *alias; struct symbol *pfunc, *cfunc, *alias;
unsigned char bind, type;
u8 uaccess_safe : 1; u8 uaccess_safe : 1;
u8 static_call_tramp : 1; u8 static_call_tramp : 1;
u8 retpoline_thunk : 1; u8 retpoline_thunk : 1;
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