Re: [PATCH 04/23] kallsyms: output binary data to speed output and kallsyms assembly

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 09:39:26AM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> ...BUT, can definitely put
> those remaining .long entries in the binary too so the assembly is
> absolutely minimal.
>
> LLM says there's 200k of those, so does seem worthwhile, I'll do that for
> v2!

OK, correction, it turns out this isn't possible :) LLM found commit
a081b5789255 ("kallsyms: Get rid of kallsyms relative base") which makes every
offset a relocation against _text, which means these have to be kept in the
assembly separately.

It takes .18s to parse those ~200k lines so it's not really a big deal :)

In any case it's not a huge time sink on build so it's no big deal to keep this
as it is.

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> >
> >                Linus
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> Cheers, Lorenzo

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Cheers, Lorenzo