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commit 8b946cc38e063f0f7bb67789478c38f6d7d457c9 upstream. Andi reported that objtool on vmlinux.o consumes more memory than his system has, leading to horrific performance. This is in part because we keep a struct instruction for every instruction in the file in-memory. Shrink struct instruction by removing the CFI state (which includes full register state) from it and demand allocating it. Given most instructions don't actually change CFI state, there's lots of repetition there, so add a hash table to find previous CFI instances. Reduces memory consumption (and runtime) for processing an x86_64-allyesconfig: pre: 4:40.84 real, 143.99 user, 44.18 sys, 30624988 mem post: 2:14.61 real, 108.58 user, 25.04 sys, 16396184 mem Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624095147.756759107@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> [bwh: Backported to 5.10: - Don't use bswap_if_needed() since we don't have any of the other fixes for mixed-endian cross-compilation - Since we don't have "objtool: Rewrite hashtable sizing", make cfi_hash_alloc() set the number of bits similarly to elf_hash_bits() - objtool doesn't have any mcount handling - Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> 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.