Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2025-06-25

Re: [PATCH v2] codetag: Avoid unused alloc_tags sections/symbols

From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Date: 2025-06-25 16:07:39
Also in: linux-arch, lkml

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 5:50 AM Petr Pavlu [off-list ref] wrote:
With CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING=n, vmlinux and all modules unnecessarily
contain the symbols __start_alloc_tags and __stop_alloc_tags, which define
an empty range. In the case of modules, the presence of these symbols also
forces the linker to create an empty .codetag.alloc_tags section.

Update codetag.lds.h to make the data conditional on
CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Thanks!

Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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Changes since v1 [1]:
- Trivially rebased the patch on top of "alloc_tag: remove empty module tag
  section" [2].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250313143002.9118-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com/ (local)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250610162258.324645-1-cachen@purestorage.com/ (local)

 include/asm-generic/codetag.lds.h | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/codetag.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/codetag.lds.h
index a45fe3d141a1..a14f4bdafdda 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/codetag.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/codetag.lds.h
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 #ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_CODETAG_LDS_H
 #define __ASM_GENERIC_CODETAG_LDS_H

+#ifdef CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING
+#define IF_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING(...) __VA_ARGS__
+#else
+#define IF_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING(...)
+#endif
+
 #define SECTION_WITH_BOUNDARIES(_name) \
        . = ALIGN(8);                   \
        __start_##_name = .;            \
@@ -9,7 +15,7 @@
        __stop_##_name = .;

 #define CODETAG_SECTIONS()             \
-       SECTION_WITH_BOUNDARIES(alloc_tags)
+       IF_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING(SECTION_WITH_BOUNDARIES(alloc_tags))

 #define MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTION(_name)    \
        .codetag.##_name : {                    \
@@ -22,6 +28,6 @@
  * unload them individually once unused.
  */
 #define MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTIONS()                \
-       MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTION(alloc_tags)
+       IF_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING(MOD_SEPARATE_CODETAG_SECTION(alloc_tags))

 #endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_CODETAG_LDS_H */
base-commit: 52da431bf03b5506203bca27fe14a97895c80faf
prerequisite-patch-id: acb6e2f6708cd75488806308bfecf682b2367dc9
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2.49.0
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