linux_dsm_epyc7002/kernel
Rasmus Villemoes 0f5e5a3ab7 tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
Automatic const char[] variables cause unnecessary code
generation. For example, the this_mod variable leads to

    3f04:       48 b8 5f 5f 74 68 69 73 5f 6d   movabs $0x6d5f736968745f5f,%rax # __this_m
    3f0e:       4c 8d 44 24 02                  lea    0x2(%rsp),%r8
    3f13:       48 8d 7c 24 10                  lea    0x10(%rsp),%rdi
    3f18:       48 89 44 24 02                  mov    %rax,0x2(%rsp)
    3f1d:       4c 89 e9                        mov    %r13,%rcx
    3f20:       b8 65 00 00 00                  mov    $0x65,%eax # e
    3f25:       48 c7 c2 00 00 00 00            mov    $0x0,%rdx
                        3f28: R_X86_64_32S      .rodata.str1.1+0x18d
    3f2c:       be 48 00 00 00                  mov    $0x48,%esi
    3f31:       c7 44 24 0a 6f 64 75 6c         movl   $0x6c75646f,0xa(%rsp) # odul
    3f39:       66 89 44 24 0e                  mov    %ax,0xe(%rsp)

i.e., the string gets built on the stack at runtime. Similar code can be
found for the other instances I'm replacing here. Putting the string
in .rodata reduces the combined .text+.rodata size and saves time and
stack space at runtime.

The simplest fix, and what I've done for the this_mod case, is to just
make the variable static.

However, for the "<faulted>" case where the same string is used twice,
that prevents the linker from merging those two literals, so instead use
a macro - that also keeps the two instances automatically in
sync (instead of only the compile-time strlen expression).

Finally, for the two runs of spaces, it turns out that the "build
these strings on the stack" is not the worst part of what gcc does -
it turns print_func_help_header_irq() into "if (tgid) { /*
print_event_info + five seq_printf calls */ } else { /* print
event_info + another five seq_printf */}". Taking inspiration from a
suggestion from Al Viro, use %.*s to make snprintf either stop after
the first two spaces or print the whole string. As a bonus, the
seq_printfs now fit on single lines (at least, they are not longer
than the existing ones in the function just above), making it easier
to see that the ascii art lines up.

x86-64 defconfig + CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER:

$ scripts/stackdelta /tmp/stackusage.{0,1}
./kernel/trace/ftrace.c ftrace_mod_callback     152     136     -16
./kernel/trace/trace.c  trace_default_header    56      32      -24
./kernel/trace/trace.c  tracing_mark_raw_write  96      72      -24
./kernel/trace/trace.c  tracing_mark_write      104     80      -24

bloat-o-meter

add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/4 up/down: 14/-375 (-361)
Function                                     old     new   delta
this_mod                                       -      14     +14
ftrace_mod_callback                          577     542     -35
tracing_mark_raw_write                       444     374     -70
tracing_mark_write                           616     540     -76
trace_default_header                         600     406    -194

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320081757.6037-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-05-08 12:15:12 -04:00
..
bpf bpf: verifier: propagate liveness on all frames 2019-03-21 19:57:02 -07:00
cgroup Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 14:08:19 -07:00
configs kvm_config: add CONFIG_VIRTIO_MENU 2018-10-24 20:55:56 -04:00
debug kdb: use bool for binary state indicators 2018-12-30 08:31:52 +00:00
dma memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
events perf/core improvements and fixes: 2019-03-22 22:50:41 +01:00
gcov kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c: use struct_size() in kzalloc() 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
irq genirq: Mark expected switch case fall-through 2019-03-23 12:32:01 +01:00
livepatch Merge branch 'for-5.1/atomic-replace' into for-linus 2019-03-05 15:56:59 +01:00
locking locking/lockdep: Only call init_rcu_head() after RCU has been initialized 2019-03-09 14:15:51 +01:00
power treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
printk fbdev changes for v5.1: 2019-03-15 14:22:59 -07:00
rcu rcu: validate arguments for rcu tracepoints 2019-04-08 09:22:51 -04:00
sched Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-03-24 11:42:10 -07:00
time time/jiffies: Make refined_jiffies static 2019-03-22 13:38:26 +01:00
trace tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables 2019-05-08 12:15:12 -04:00
.gitignore kernel/configs: use .incbin directive to embed config_data.gz 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
acct.c
async.c async: Add support for queueing on specific NUMA node 2019-01-31 14:20:54 +01:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit: add syscall information to CONFIG_CHANGE records 2019-01-18 17:53:29 -05:00
audit_tree.c audit: hand taken context to audit_kill_trees for syscall logging 2019-01-14 18:01:05 -05:00
audit_watch.c audit: add syscall information to CONFIG_CHANGE records 2019-01-18 17:53:29 -05:00
audit.c audit: remove audit_context when CONFIG_ AUDIT and not AUDITSYSCALL 2019-02-03 17:49:35 -05:00
audit.h audit: hide auditsc_get_stamp and audit_serial prototypes 2019-02-07 21:44:27 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: mark expected switch fall-through 2019-02-12 20:17:13 -05:00
auditsc.c audit: remove audit_context when CONFIG_ AUDIT and not AUDITSYSCALL 2019-02-03 17:49:35 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c kbuild: fix kernel/bounds.c 'W=1' warning 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
capability.c LSM: add SafeSetID module that gates setid calls 2019-01-25 11:22:43 -08:00
compat.c time: make adjtime compat handling available for 32 bit 2019-02-07 00:13:27 +01:00
configs.c kernel/configs: use .incbin directive to embed config_data.gz 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Prevent crash when CPU bringup fails on CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n 2019-03-28 13:34:58 +01:00
crash_core.c kexec: export PG_offline to VMCOREINFO 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c SELinux: Remove cred security blob poisoning 2019-01-08 13:18:44 -08:00
delayacct.c delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c Merge branch 'for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2019-03-07 10:11:41 -08:00
extable.c
fail_function.c kernel/fail_function.c: remove meaningless null pointer check before debugfs_remove_recursive 2018-10-31 08:54:12 -07:00
fork.c 5.1 Merge Window Pull Request 2019-03-09 15:53:03 -08:00
freezer.c PM / reboot: Eliminate race between reboot and suspend 2018-08-06 12:35:20 +02:00
futex.c futex: Ensure that futex address is aligned in handle_futex_death() 2019-03-22 13:05:26 +01:00
groups.c
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: Use continuously blocked time when reporting. 2019-03-07 18:31:59 -08:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c
jump_label.c jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
kallsyms.c bpf: Add module name [bpf] to ksymbols for bpf programs 2019-01-21 17:38:56 -03:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks bpf: introduce bpf_spin_lock 2019-02-01 20:55:38 +01:00
Kconfig.preempt kconfig: warn no new line at end of file 2018-12-15 17:44:35 +09:00
kcov.c kcov: convert kcov.refcount to refcount_t 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
kexec_core.c mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
kexec_file.c kexec_file: kexec_walk_memblock() only walks a dedicated region at kdump 2018-12-06 14:38:50 +00:00
kexec_internal.h
kexec.c kexec: add call to LSM hook in original kexec_load syscall 2018-07-16 12:31:57 -07:00
kmod.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Search non-suffixed symbol in blacklist 2019-02-13 08:16:40 +01:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-06 10:31:36 -08:00
latencytop.c
Makefile kernel/configs: use .incbin directive to embed config_data.gz 2019-03-07 18:32:02 -08:00
memremap.c mm/hmm: fix memremap.h, move dev_page_fault_t callback to hmm 2018-12-28 12:11:52 -08:00
module_signing.c modsign: use all trusted keys to verify module signature 2018-11-07 14:41:41 +01:00
module-internal.h
module.c dynamic_debug: add static inline stub for ddebug_add_module 2019-03-07 18:32:00 -08:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: clean an indentation issue, remove extraneous space 2018-11-16 14:11:04 +08:00
panic.c kernel/panic.c: taint: fix debugfs_simple_attr.cocci warnings 2019-03-07 18:31:59 -08:00
params.c
pid_namespace.c signal: Use group_send_sig_info to kill all processes in a pid namespace 2018-09-16 16:08:25 +02:00
pid.c Fix failure path in alloc_pid() 2018-12-28 12:42:30 -08:00
profile.c mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ptrace.c ptrace: take into account saved_sigmask in PTRACE{GET,SET}SIGMASK 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot.c: export pm_power_off_prepare 2018-09-11 16:13:24 +01:00
relay.c Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 13:27:20 -07:00
resource.c device-dax for 5.1 2019-03-16 13:05:32 -07:00
rseq.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
seccomp.c Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-03-07 11:44:01 -08:00
signal.c pidfd patches for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-16 13:47:14 -07:00
smp.c cpu/hotplug: Fix "SMT disabled by BIOS" detection for KVM 2019-01-30 19:27:00 +01:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c softirq: Don't skip softirq execution when softirq thread is parking 2019-02-10 21:51:39 +01:00
stackleak.c stackleak: Mark stackleak_track_stack() as notrace 2018-12-05 19:31:44 -08:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 11:25:07 -07:00
sys_ni.c pidfd patches for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-16 13:47:14 -07:00
sys.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-07 19:25:37 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
sysctl.c kernel/sysctl.c: define minmax conv functions in terms of non-minmax versions 2019-03-12 10:04:00 -07:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c Merge branches 'doc.2019.01.26a', 'fixes.2019.01.26a', 'sil.2019.01.26a', 'spdx.2019.02.09a', 'srcu.2019.01.26a' and 'torture.2019.01.26a' into HEAD 2019-02-09 08:47:52 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracing: Replace synchronize_sched() and call_rcu_sched() 2018-11-27 09:21:41 -08:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c umh: add exit routine for UMH process 2019-01-11 18:05:40 -08:00
up.c smp,cpumask: introduce on_each_cpu_cond_mask 2018-10-09 16:51:11 +02:00
user_namespace.c userns: also map extents in the reverse map to kernel IDs 2018-11-07 23:51:16 -06:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c userns: use irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock() 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory 2018-08-11 02:05:53 -05:00
utsname.c
watchdog_hld.c watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions as notrace 2018-08-30 12:56:40 +02:00
watchdog.c watchdog: Respect watchdog cpumask on CPU hotplug 2019-03-28 13:32:01 +01:00
workqueue_internal.h psi: fix aggregation idle shut-off 2019-02-01 15:46:23 -08:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Only unregister a registered lockdep key 2019-03-21 12:00:18 +01:00