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Jens Remus 57216cc985 s390/build: Avoid relocation information in final vmlinux 
Since commit 778666df60 ("s390: compile relocatable kernel without
-fPIE") the kernel vmlinux ELF file is linked with --emit-relocs to
preserve all relocations, so that all absolute relocations can be
extracted using the 'relocs' tool to adjust them during boot.

Port and adapt Petr Pavlu's x86 commit 9d9173e9ce ("x86/build: Avoid
relocation information in final vmlinux") to s390 to strip all
relocations from the final vmlinux ELF file to optimize its size.
Following is his original commit message with minor adaptions for s390:

The Linux build process on s390 roughly consists of compiling all input
files, statically linking them into a vmlinux ELF file, and then taking
and turning this file into an actual bzImage bootable file.

vmlinux has in this process two main purposes:
1) It is an intermediate build target on the way to produce the final
   bootable image.
2) It is a file that is expected to be used by debuggers and standard
   ELF tooling to work with the built kernel.

For the second purpose, a vmlinux file is typically collected by various
package build recipes, such as distribution spec files, including the
kernel's own tar-pkg target.

When building the kernel vmlinux contains also relocation information
produced by using the --emit-relocs linker option. This is utilized by
subsequent build steps to create relocs.S and produce a relocatable
image. However, the information is not needed by debuggers and other
standard ELF tooling.

The issue is then that the collected vmlinux file and hence distribution
packages end up unnecessarily large because of this extra data. The
following is a size comparison of vmlinux v6.10 with and without the
relocation information:

  | Configuration      | With relocs | Stripped relocs |
  | defconfig          |      696 MB |          320 MB |
  | -CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO |       48 MB |           32 MB |

Optimize a resulting vmlinux by adding a postlink step that splits the
relocation information into relocs.S and then strips it from the vmlinux
binary.

Reviewed-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
2024-08-27 20:16:48 +02:00
arch s390/build: Avoid relocation information in final vmlinux 2024-08-27 20:16:48 +02:00
block block: fix deadlock between sd_remove & sd_release 2024-07-24 09:51:21 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - generate power-of-2 lengths more often 2024-07-13 11:50:28 +12:00
Documentation profiling: remove profile=sleep support 2024-08-04 13:36:28 -07:00
drivers s390/zcrypt_msgtype6: Cleanup debug code 2024-08-21 16:17:01 +02:00
fs 'smb3 client fixes 2024-08-04 08:18:40 -07:00
include profiling: remove profile=sleep support 2024-08-04 13:36:28 -07:00
init rust: SHADOW_CALL_STACK is incompatible with Rust 2024-08-01 16:15:03 +01:00
io_uring io_uring: remove unused local list heads in NAPI functions 2024-07-30 06:20:20 -06:00
ipc sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers 2024-07-24 20:59:29 +02:00
kernel profiling: remove profile=sleep support 2024-08-04 13:36:28 -07:00
lib minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression 2024-07-28 20:23:27 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm minmax: make generic MIN() and MAX() macros available everywhere 2024-07-28 15:49:18 -07:00
net Including fixes from wireless, bleutooth, BPF and netfilter. 2024-08-01 09:42:09 -07:00
rust Rust changes for v6.11 2024-07-27 13:44:54 -07:00
samples Driver core changes for 6.11-rc1 2024-07-25 10:42:22 -07:00
scripts syscalls: fix syscall macros for newfstat/newfstatat 2024-08-02 15:20:47 +02:00
security apparmor-pr-2024-07-24 PR 2024-07-25 2024-07-27 13:28:39 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.11-rc2 2024-08-02 09:04:57 -07:00
tools * fix latent bug in how usage of large pages is determined for 2024-08-02 10:17:49 -07:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt KVM: guest_memfd: abstract how prepared folios are recorded 2024-07-26 14:46:15 -04:00
.clang-format Docs: Move clang-format from process/ to dev-tools/ 2024-06-26 16:36:00 -06:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package 2024-07-22 01:24:22 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: mailmap: update James Clark's email address 2024-07-26 14:32:35 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS tracing: Update of MAINTAINERS and CREDITS file 2024-07-18 14:08:42 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Including fixes from wireless, bleutooth, BPF and netfilter. 2024-08-01 09:42:09 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.11-rc2 2024-08-04 13:50:53 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.