[PATCH v2 6/8] objtool: optimize layout of struct symbol

From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Tue Dec 27 2022 - 11:03:31 EST


Reduce the size of struct symbol on x86_64 from 208 to 200 bytes.
This structure is allocated a lot and never freed.

This reduces maximum memory usage while processing vmlinux.o from
2919716 KB to 2917988 KB (-0.5%) on my notebooks "localmodconfig".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
index 2b5becad5a0a..f41573ff1f8b 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
@@ -50,12 +50,11 @@ struct symbol {
GElf_Sym sym;
struct section *sec;
char *name;
- unsigned int idx;
- unsigned char bind, type;
+ unsigned int idx, len;
unsigned long offset;
- unsigned int len;
unsigned long __subtree_last;
struct symbol *pfunc, *cfunc, *alias;
+ unsigned char bind, type;
u8 uaccess_safe : 1;
u8 static_call_tramp : 1;
u8 retpoline_thunk : 1;

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