From 281b61d408d4c39544583e393c6707af0ef5ee50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 21:55:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] scripts/mksysmap: drop the MODULE_INFO() symbols from kallsyms Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") keeps .modinfo symbols out of System.map and kallsyms, which assumes unique IDs have a format like '__UNIQUE_ID_modinfo123'. However, commit afb026b6d35c ("compiler: Tweak __UNIQUE_ID() naming"), sent in the same cycle, changes this to '__UNIQUE_ID_modinfo_123'. As a result this regexp has never matched and every kernel since v6.18 has carried one kallsyms entries for every MODULE_INFO() declaration in the kernel whether the modules are compiled or not. That's 5,810 entries for an x86 defconfig build and 15,200 for arm64. On x86 defconfig that is 113 KiB of kallsyms tables and 32 KiB of bzImage, and every lookup walks past them. Fix the pattern. Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260908-build-speedup-v1-1-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier --- scripts/mksysmap | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/mksysmap b/scripts/mksysmap index c4531eacde20..56a8b8bbdb37 100755 --- a/scripts/mksysmap +++ b/scripts/mksysmap @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ / _SDA2_BASE_$/d # MODULE_INFO() -/ __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo[0-9]*$/d +/ __UNIQUE_ID_modinfo_[0-9]*$/d # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Ignored patterns