Re: [PATCH] Makefile.debug: support for -gz=zstd

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:56:49AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Make DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED a choice; DEBUG_INFO_UNCOMPRESSED is the
> default, DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED uses zlib, DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD
> uses zstd.
> 
> Some quick N=1 measurements with du, /usr/bin/time -v, and bloaty:
> 
> clang-16, x86_64 defconfig plus
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_UNCOMPRESSED=y:
> Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:55.43
> 488M vmlinux
> 27.6%   136Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_info
>  6.1%  30.2Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_str_offsets
>  3.5%  17.2Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_line
>  3.3%  16.3Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_loclists
>  0.9%  4.62Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_str
> 
> clang-16, x86_64 defconfig plus
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED=y (zlib):
> Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 1:00.35
> 385M vmlinux
> 21.8%  85.4Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_info
>  2.1%  8.26Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_str_offsets
>  2.1%  8.24Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_loclists
>  1.9%  7.48Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_line
>  0.5%  1.94Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_str
> 
> clang-16, x86_64 defconfig plus
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD=y (zstd):
> Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:59.69
> 373M vmlinux
> 21.4%  81.4Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_info
>  2.3%  8.85Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_loclists
>  1.5%  5.71Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_line
>  0.5%  1.95Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_str_offsets
>  0.4%  1.62Mi   0.0%       0    .debug_str
> 
> That's only a 3.11% overall binary size savings over zlib, but at no
> performance regression.
> 
> Link: https://maskray.me/blog/2022-09-09-zstd-compressed-debug-sections
> Link: https://maskray.me/blog/2022-01-23-compressed-debug-sections
> Suggested-by: Sedat Dilek (DHL Supply Chain) <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

One small comment below.

> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.debug      | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  scripts/Makefile.debug |  4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 3fc7abffc7aa..4085ac77dc12 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -312,8 +312,22 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
>  	  DEBUG_INFO build and compile times are reduced too.
>  	  Only works with newer gcc versions.
>  
> +choice
> +	prompt "Compressed Debug information"
> +	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL

I think you can drop this depends. The entire block is in an
'if DEBUG_INFO', which can only be true if CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is set
because of the dependencies of the "Debug information" prompt above this
file, which is how CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is selected.

> +	help
> +	  Compress the resulting debug info. Results in smaller debug info sections,
> +	  but requires that consumers are able to decompress the results.
> +
> +	  If unsure, choose DEBUG_INFO_UNCOMPRESSED.
> +
> +config DEBUG_INFO_UNCOMPRESSED
> +	bool "Don't compress debug information"
> +	help
> +	  Don't compress debug info sections.
> +
>  config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
> -	bool "Compressed debugging information"
> +	bool "Compress debugging information with zlib"
>  	depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib)
>  	depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib)
>  	help
> @@ -327,6 +341,16 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
>  	  preferable to setting $KDEB_COMPRESS to "none" which would be even
>  	  larger.
>  
> +config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD
> +	bool "Compress debugging information with zstd"
> +	depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zstd)
> +	depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zstd)
> +	help
> +	  Compress the debug information using zstd.  Requires GCC 13.0+ or Clang
> +	  16.0+, binutils 2.40+, and zstd.
> +
> +endchoice # "Compressed Debug information"
> +
>  config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
>  	bool "Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files"
>  	depends on $(cc-option,-gsplit-dwarf)
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.debug b/scripts/Makefile.debug
> index 332c486f705f..8ac3379d2255 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.debug
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.debug
> @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
>  DEBUG_CFLAGS	+= -gz=zlib
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= -gz=zlib
>  KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= --compress-debug-sections=zlib
> +else ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD
> +DEBUG_CFLAGS	+= -gz=zstd
> +KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= -gz=zstd
> +KBUILD_LDFLAGS	+= --compress-debug-sections=zstd
>  endif
>  
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(DEBUG_CFLAGS)
> -- 
> 2.38.0.135.g90850a2211-goog
>