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authorThomas Weißschuh2022-12-27 16:01:02 +0000
committerJosh Poimboeuf2023-02-01 09:15:24 -0800
commit21a899f9fc78be6b289ee4627bccadf560930eb5 (patch)
tree6c0356e98fcbbc46872fdf9563948c94e149c999 /tools/objtool
parent8045b8f0b17edf375849f83c80dd05194850b6ed (diff)
objtool: Optimize layout of struct symbol
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@weissschuh.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221216-objtool-memory-v2-6-17968f85a464@weissschuh.net Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/objtool')
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
index 1c90f0ac0d53..ad0024da262b 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;