@@ -274,6 +274,15 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
+config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
+ def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "119")
+
+config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES
+ def_bool y
+ depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
+ help
+ Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules.
+
config GDB_SCRIPTS
bool "Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging"
help
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
PHONY := __modfinal
__modfinal:
+include include/config/auto.conf
include $(srctree)/scripts/Kbuild.include
# for c_flags
@@ -36,8 +37,23 @@ quiet_cmd_ld_ko_o = LD [M] $@
-T scripts/module.lds -o $@ $(filter %.o, $^); \
$(if $(ARCH_POSTLINK), $(MAKE) -f $(ARCH_POSTLINK) $@, true)
-$(modules): %.ko: %.o %.mod.o scripts/module.lds FORCE
- +$(call if_changed,ld_ko_o)
+quiet_cmd_btf_ko = BTF [M] $@
+ cmd_btf_ko = LLVM_OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY) $(PAHOLE) -J --btf_base vmlinux $@
+
+# Same as newer-prereqs, but allows to exclude specified extra dependencies
+newer_prereqs_except = $(filter-out $(PHONY) $(1),$?)
+
+# Same as if_changed, but allows to exclude specified extra dependencies
+if_changed_except = $(if $(call newer_prereqs_except,$(2))$(cmd-check), \
+ $(cmd); \
+ printf '%s\n' 'cmd_$@ := $(make-cmd)' > $(dot-target).cmd, @:)
+
+# Re-generate module BTFs if either module's .ko or vmlinux changed
+$(modules): %.ko: %.o %.mod.o scripts/module.lds vmlinux FORCE
+ +$(call if_changed_except,ld_ko_o,vmlinux)
+ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES
+ +$(if $(newer-prereqs),$(call cmd,btf_ko))
+endif
targets += $(modules) $(modules:.ko=.mod.o)
Detect if pahole supports split BTF generation, and generate BTF for each selected kernel module, if it does. This is exposed to Makefiles and C code as CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES flag. Kernel module BTF has to be re-generated if either vmlinux's BTF changes or module's .ko changes. To achieve that, I needed a helper similar to if_changed, but that would allow to filter out vmlinux from the list of updated dependencies for .ko building. I've put it next to the only place that uses and needs it, but it might be a better idea to just add it along the other if_changed variants into scripts/Kbuild.include. Each kernel module's BTF deduplication is pretty fast, as it does only incremental BTF deduplication on top of already deduplicated vmlinux BTF. To show the added build time, I've first ran make only just built kernel (to establish the baseline) and then forced only BTF re-generation, without regenerating .ko files. The build was performed with -j60 parallelization on 56-core machine. The final time also includes bzImage building, so it's not a pure BTF overhead. $ time make -j60 ... make -j60 27.65s user 10.96s system 782% cpu 4.933 total $ touch ~/linux-build/default/vmlinux && time make -j60 ... make -j60 123.69s user 27.85s system 1566% cpu 9.675 total So 4.6 seconds real time, with noticeable part spent in compressed vmlinux and bzImage building. To show size savings, I've built my kernel configuration with about 700 kernel modules with full BTF per each kernel module (without deduplicating against vmlinux) and with split BTF against deduplicated vmlinux (approach in this patch). Below are top 10 modules with biggest BTF sizes. And total size of BTF data across all kernel modules. It shows that split BTF "compresses" 115MB down to 5MB total. And the biggest kernel modules get a downsize from 500-570KB down to 200-300KB. FULL BTF ======== $ for f in $(find . -name '*.ko'); do size -A -d $f | grep BTF | awk '{print $2}'; done | awk '{ s += $1 } END { print s }' 115710691 $ for f in $(find . -name '*.ko'); do printf "%s %d\n" $f $(size -A -d $f | grep BTF | awk '{print $2}'); done | sort -nr -k2 | head -n10 ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko 570570 ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.ko 520240 ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko 503849 ./drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko 491777 ./fs/xfs/xfs.ko 411544 ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.ko 403904 ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.ko 398754 ./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_core.ko 397224 ./fs/cifs/cifs.ko 386249 ./fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko 379738 SPLIT BTF ========= $ for f in $(find . -name '*.ko'); do size -A -d $f | grep BTF | awk '{print $2}'; done | awk '{ s += $1 } END { print s }' 5194047 $ for f in $(find . -name '*.ko'); do printf "%s %d\n" $f $(size -A -d $f | grep BTF | awk '{print $2}'); done | sort -nr -k2 | head -n10 ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko 293206 ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko 282103 ./fs/xfs/xfs.ko 222150 ./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.ko 198503 ./drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko 198356 ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.ko 113444 ./fs/cifs/cifs.ko 109379 ./arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko 100225 ./drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko 94827 ./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_core.ko 91188 Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 9 +++++++++ scripts/Makefile.modfinal | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)