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
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201110011932.3201430-4-andrii@kernel.org
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