block/sheepdog.o has a 4M static variable that is 90% of QEMU's whole .bss section. Since it doesn't really have to be static, we can just use a heap allocated block. We can actually make it smaller too. :)
Patch 1 is a related cleanup since we're touching that area of the code. Paolo Paolo Bonzini (2): sheepdog: cleanup repeated expression sheepdog: remove huge BSS object block/sheepdog.c | 27 ++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 2.17.0
