Commit d32b55f4 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada

kallsyms: ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols

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>
parent aa221f2e
......@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
# $ - local symbols for ARM, MIPS, etc.
# .L - local labels, .LBB,.Ltmpxxx,.L__unnamed_xx,.LASANPC, etc.
# __crc_ - modversions
# __kstrtab_ - EXPORT_SYMBOL (symbol name)
# __kstrtabns_ - EXPORT_SYMBOL (namespace)
#
# Ignored symbols:
# L0 - for LoongArch?
......@@ -52,5 +54,7 @@ $NM -n $1 | grep -v \
-e ' \$' \
-e ' \.L' \
-e ' __crc_' \
-e ' __kstrtab_' \
-e ' __kstrtabns_' \
-e ' L0$' \
> $2
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