[PATCH] codetag: Avoid unused alloc_tags sections/symbols

From: Petr Pavlu
Date: Thu Mar 13 2025 - 10:32:13 EST


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@xxxxxxxx>
---
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 372c320c5043..0ea1fa678405 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))

/*
* Module codetags which aren't used after module unload, therefore have the
@@ -28,6 +34,6 @@
* 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: 80e54e84911a923c40d7bee33a34c1b4be148d7a
--
2.43.0