linux.git/scripts/bloat-o-meter, branch v6.18.21

scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes

2023-08-21T20:46:25+00:00

Currently, bloat-o-meter does not take into account weak symbols, and
thus ignores any size changes in code or data marked __weak.

Fix this by handling weak code ("w"/"W") and data ("v"/"V").

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a1e7abd2571c3bbfe75345d6ee98b276d2d5c39d.1692200010.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

scripts/bloat-o-meter: use the reverse flag for sort

2023-02-03T06:50:03+00:00

The sort function has the inbuilt reversal option.  We can use it to save
some time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230106091319.3824-1-apantykhin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Pantyukhin 
Cc: Nikolay Borisov 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

scripts/bloat-o-meter: add -p argument

2022-07-18T00:31:40+00:00

When doing cross platform development on a machine sometimes it might be
useful to invoke bloat-o-meter for files which haven't been build with the
native toolchain.  In cases when the host nm doesn't support the target
one then a toolchain-specific nm could be used.  Add this ability by
adding the -p allowing invocations as:

./scripts/bloat-o-meter -p riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu- file1.o file2.o

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220701113513.1938008-2-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

scripts/bloat-o-meter: switch argument parsing to using argparse

2022-07-18T00:31:40+00:00

This will facilitate further extension to the arguments the script takes. 
As an added benefit it also produces saner usage output, where mutual
exclusivity of the c|d|t parameters is clearly visible:

./scripts/bloat-o-meter  -h
usage: bloat-o-meter [-h] [-c | -d | -t] file1 file2

Simple script used to compare the symbol sizes of 2 object files

positional arguments:
  file1       First file to compare
  file2       Second file to compare

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -c          categorize output based on symbol type
  -d          Show delta of Data Section
  -t          Show delta of text Section

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220701113513.1938008-1-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

scripts/bloat-o-meter: filter out vermagic as it is not relevant

2022-04-29T21:37:57+00:00

Seeing it as a false positive increase at the top is just noise:

   linux-head$./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../pre/vmlinux ../post/vmlinux
   add/remove: 0/571 grow/shrink: 1/9 up/down: 20/-64662 (-64642)
   Function                                     old     new   delta
   vermagic                                      49      69     +20

Since it really doesn't "grow", it makes sense to filter it out.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220428035824.7934-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3

2021-01-21T21:34:44+00:00

Some distributions are about to switch to Python 3 support only.
This means that /usr/bin/python, which is Python 2, is not available
anymore. Hence, switch scripts to use Python 3 explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

tweewide: Fix most Shebang lines

2020-12-08T14:30:04+00:00

Change every shebang which does not need an argument to use /usr/bin/env.
This is needed as not every distro has everything under /usr/bin,
sometimes not even bash.

Signed-off-by: Finn Behrens 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

scripts/bloat-o-meter: Support comparing library archives

2020-08-07T18:33:21+00:00

Library archives (.a) usually contain multiple object files so their
output of nm --size-sort contains lines like:


00000000000003a8 t run_test

extent-map-tests.o:


bloat-o-meter currently doesn't handle them which results in errors when
calling .split() on them.  Fix this by simply ignoring them.  This enables
diffing subsystems which generate built-in.a files.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200603103513.3712-1-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bloat-o-meter: ignore __addressable_ symbols

2018-12-28T20:11:44+00:00

Since __LINE__ is part of the symbol created by __ADDRESSABLE, almost
any change causes those symbols to disappear and get reincarnated, e.g.

add/remove: 4/4 grow/shrink: 0/3 up/down: 32/-171 (-139)
Function                                     old     new   delta
__addressable_tracing_set_default_clock8649       -       8      +8
__addressable_tracer_init_tracefs8631          -       8      +8
__addressable_ftrace_dump8383                  -       8      +8
__addressable_clear_boot_tracer8632            -       8      +8
__addressable_tracing_set_default_clock8650       8       -      -8
__addressable_tracer_init_tracefs8632          8       -      -8
__addressable_ftrace_dump8384                  8       -      -8
__addressable_clear_boot_tracer8633            8       -      -8
trace_default_header                         663     642     -21
tracing_mark_raw_write                       406     355     -51
tracing_mark_write                           624     557     -67
Total: Before=63889, After=63750, chg -0.22%

They're small and in .discard, so ignore them, leading to more useful

add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/3 up/down: 0/-139 (-139)
Function                                     old     new   delta
trace_default_header                         663     642     -21
tracing_mark_raw_write                       406     355     -51
tracing_mark_write                           624     557     -67
Total: Before=63721, After=63582, chg -0.22%

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181102210030.8383-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Dominik Brodowski 
Cc: Maninder Singh 
Cc: Matteo Croce 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention

2018-04-09T14:47:28+00:00

Tidy the naming convention for compat syscall subs. Hints which describe
the purpose of the stub go in front and receive a double underscore to
denote that they are generated on-the-fly by the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
macro.

For the generic case, this means:

t            kernel_waitid	# common C function (see kernel/exit.c)

    __do_compat_sys_waitid	# inlined helper doing the actual work
				# (takes original parameters as declared)

T   __se_compat_sys_waitid	# sign-extending C function calling inlined
				# helper (takes parameters of type long,
				# casts them to unsigned long and then to
				# the declared type)

T        compat_sys_waitid      # alias to __se_compat_sys_waitid()
				# (taking parameters as declared), to
				# be included in syscall table

For x86, the naming is as follows:

t            kernel_waitid	# common C function (see kernel/exit.c)

    __do_compat_sys_waitid	# inlined helper doing the actual work
				# (takes original parameters as declared)

t   __se_compat_sys_waitid      # sign-extending C function calling inlined
				# helper (takes parameters of type long,
				# casts them to unsigned long and then to
				# the declared type)

T __ia32_compat_sys_waitid	# IA32_EMULATION 32-bit-ptregs -> C stub,
				# calls __se_compat_sys_waitid(); to be
				# included in syscall table

T  __x32_compat_sys_waitid	# x32 64-bit-ptregs -> C stub, calls
				# __se_compat_sys_waitid(); to be included
				# in syscall table

If only one of IA32_EMULATION and x32 is enabled, __se_compat_sys_waitid()
may be inlined into the stub __{ia32,x32}_compat_sys_waitid().

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180409105145.5364-3-linux@dominikbrodowski.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar