[PATCH 0/8] dyndbg: WIP diet plan

[jim.cromie at gmail.com]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 4:40 AM Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 12:30:15PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> > dynamic-debug metadata is bloated; the __dyndbg linker section is
> > effectively an array of struct _ddebugs, its 1st 3 members are highly
> > repetetive, with 90%, 84%, 45% repeats.  Total reported usage ~150kb
> > for ~2600 callsites on my laptop config.
> >
> > This patchset is one diet plan. it all holds together nicely until the
> > "cache" commit, when it blows up starting init (or right after freeing
> > unused kernel image, which Im hoping to do...).  The following commit
> > tweaks locking in an attempt to recover, but fails.
>
> <snip>
>
> Any reason this went to kernelnewbies, and not lkml so that other
> developers could see it?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h


Mostly cuz its broken.
and I feel like I have dumb questions
I was hoping to repair the stupid errors before going to LKML
trade dumb questions for considered answers,
and hopefully reply with progress

But I'll take your question as advice.