linux/include
Jim Cromie 1d926e259d vmlinux.lds.h: add HEADERED_SECTION_* macros
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>
2022-11-17 19:37:04 +01:00
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acpi platform-drivers-x86 for v6.1-1 2022-10-05 10:38:24 -07:00
asm-generic vmlinux.lds.h: add HEADERED_SECTION_* macros 2022-11-17 19:37:04 +01:00
clocksource
crypto
drm Driver core changes for 6.1-rc1 2022-10-07 17:04:10 -07:00
dt-bindings These are the pin control changes for the v6.1 kernel cycle: 2022-10-11 10:59:59 -07:00
keys
kunit kunit: declare kunit_assert structs as const 2022-10-07 10:19:18 -06:00
kvm
linux resource: Convert DEFINE_RES_NAMED() to be compound literal 2022-11-10 18:58:24 +01:00
math-emu
media USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.1-rc1 2022-10-07 16:48:26 -07:00
memory
misc
net Random number generator fixes for Linux 6.1-rc1. 2022-10-16 15:27:07 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma
rv
scsi SCSI misc on 20221007 2022-10-07 12:33:18 -07:00
soc RISC-V Patches for the 6.1 Merge Window, Part 2 2022-10-14 11:21:11 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda: Update register polling macros 2022-10-09 12:34:32 +02:00
target
trace f2fs-for-6.1-rc1 2022-10-10 20:28:41 -07:00
uapi This pull request contains updates for UBI and UBIFS 2022-10-14 18:23:23 -07:00
ufs SCSI misc on 20221007 2022-10-07 12:33:18 -07:00
vdso
video
xen xen/virtio: enable grant based virtio on x86 2022-10-10 14:31:26 +02:00