[PATCH 3/4] s390: enable text relative kallsyms for 64-bit targets

Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com
Wed Jan 20 20:43:26 AEDT 2016


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:05:37AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This enables the newly introduced text-relative kallsyms support when
> building 64-bit targets. This cuts the size of the kallsyms address
> table in half, reducing the memory footprint of the kernel .rodata
> section by about 250 KB for a defconfig build.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
> index dbeeb3a049f2..588160fd1db0 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
> @@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ config S390
>  	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
>  	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
>  	select HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
> +	select KALLSYMS_TEXT_RELATIVE if 64BIT

Please remove the "if 64BIT" since s390 is always 64BIT in the meantime.
Tested on s390 and everything seems still to work ;)

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>



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