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These macros elaborate on BOUNDED_SECTION_(PRE|POST)_LABEL macros, prepending an optional KEEP(.gnu.linkonce##_sec_) reservation, and a linker-symbol to address it. This allows a developer to define a header struct (which must fit with the section's base struct-type), and could contain: 1- fields whose value is common to the entire set of data-records. This allows the header & data structs to specialize, complement each other, and shrink. 2- an uplink pointer to an organizing struct which refs other related/sub data-tables header record is addressable via the extern'd header linker-symbol Once the linker-symbols created by the macro are ref'd extern in code, that code can compute a record's index (ptr - start) in the "primary" table, then use it to index into the related/sub tables. Adding a primary.map_* field foreach sub-table would then allow deduplication and remapping of that sub-table. This is aimed at dyndbg's struct _ddebug __dyndbg[] section, whose 3 columns: function, file, module are 50%, 90%, 100% redundant. The module column is fully recoverable after dynamic_debug_init() saves it to each ddebug_table.module as the builtin __dyndbg[] table is parsed. Given that those 3 columns use 24/56 of a _ddebug record, a dyndbg=y kernel with ~5k callsites could reduce kernel memory substantially. Returning that memory to the kernel buddy-allocator? is then possible. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117171633.923628-3-jim.cromie@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.