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    vmlinux.lds.h: place optional header space in BOUNDED_SECTION · 2f465b92
    Jim Cromie authored
    Extend recently added BOUNDED_SECTION(_name) macro by adding a
    KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_name)) before the KEEP(*(_name)).
    
    This does nothing by itself, vmlinux is the same before and after this
    patch.  But if a developer adds a .gnu.linkonce.foo record, that
    record is placed in the front of the section, where it can be used as
    a header for the table.
    
    The intent is to create an up-link to another organizing struct, from
    where related tables can be referenced.  And since every item in a
    table has a known offset from its header, that same offset can be used
    to fetch records from the related tables.
    
    By itself, this doesnt gain much, unless maybe the pattern of access
    is to scan 1 or 2 fields in each fat record, but with 2 16 bit .map*
    fields added, we could de-duplicate 2 related tables.
    
    The use case here is struct _ddebug, which has 3 pointers (function,
    file, module) with substantial repetition; respectively 53%, 90%, and
    the module column is fully recoverable after dynamic_debug_init()
    splits the table into a linked list of "module" chunks.
    
    On a DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y kernel with 5k pr_debugs, the memory savings
    should be ~100 KiB.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221022225637.1406715-3-jim.cromie@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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