From ea01e798e2d27fd04142e0473ca36570fa9d9218 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:02:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] module: reduce module image and resident size Resulting reduction (x86-64, gcc 4.1.2) with my (special purpose, i.e. much reduced) configurations: - 16k kernel resident size - 180k module resident size - 10k module image size Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- include/linux/module.h | 2 +- kernel/module.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index a29c2ebb7c38..3e03b1acbc94 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ void *__symbol_get_gpl(const char *symbol); extern typeof(sym) sym; \ __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \ static const char __kstrtab_##sym[] \ - __attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"))) \ + __attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"), aligned(1))) \ = MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #sym; \ static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym \ __used \ diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index b0d7c2a41bd9..031bf26af8ea 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1828,8 +1828,9 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, unwindex = find_sec(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, ARCH_UNWIND_SECTION_NAME); #endif - /* Don't keep modinfo section */ + /* Don't keep modinfo and version sections. */ sechdrs[infoindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC; + sechdrs[versindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC; #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS /* Keep symbol and string tables for decoding later. */ sechdrs[symindex].sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC;