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    vmlinux.lds.h: add HEADERED_SECTION_* macros · 1d926e25
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    These macros elaborate on BOUNDED_SECTION_(PRE|POST)_LABEL macros,
    prepending an optional KEEP(.gnu.linkonce##_sec_) reservation, and a
    linker-symbol to address it.
    
    This allows a developer to define a header struct (which must fit with
    the section's base struct-type), and could contain:
    
    1- fields whose value is common to the entire set of data-records.
       This allows the header & data structs to specialize, complement
       each other, and shrink.
    
    2- an uplink pointer to an organizing struct
       which refs other related/sub data-tables
       header record is addressable via the extern'd header linker-symbol
    
    Once the linker-symbols created by the macro are ref'd extern in code,
    that code can compute a record's index (ptr - start) in the "primary"
    table, then use it to index into the related/sub tables.  Adding a
    primary.map_* field foreach sub-table would then allow deduplication
    and remapping of that sub-table.
    
    This is aimed at dyndbg's struct _ddebug __dyndbg[] section, whose 3
    columns: function, file, module are 50%, 90%, 100% redundant.  The
    module column is fully recoverable after dynamic_debug_init() saves it
    to each ddebug_table.module as the builtin __dyndbg[] table is parsed.
    
    Given that those 3 columns use 24/56 of a _ddebug record, a dyndbg=y
    kernel with ~5k callsites could reduce kernel memory substantially.
    Returning that memory to the kernel buddy-allocator? is then possible.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117171633.923628-3-jim.cromie@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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