On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 05:19 +0200, Горбешко Богдан wrote: > On 30.11.2021 01:57, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > About 59 MiB, so again most of the increase. > > > > It appears that BTF in modules was enabled in Linux 5.11 by > > <https://git.kernel.org/linus/5f9ae91f7c0dbbc4195e2a6c8eedcaeb5b9e4cbb> > > So the patch that was supposed to drastically reduce the size of modules > by extracting the debugging info to a separate deduplicated file, > actually increased it even more? Sounds pretty ironic. > > Or did the deduplication finally make BTFs reasonably small to be > included by default, as they were much larger before and thus were disabled?
It is confusing, yes. I *think* that the commit message is actually saying that it makes the module BTF section smaller than in an earlier version that was not applied. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
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