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

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 20 January 2016 at 10:43, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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>
>

Thanks! Did you take a look at /proc/kallsyms, by any chance? It
should look identical with and without these patches