tree 79c8ef923e5195931b09fae2e27a54e913d85237
parent b7b205c3a0bc2b51f83cb793178ccbc12addf275
author Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 1624527661 +0200
committer Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 1631713905 +0200

objtool: Introduce CFI hash

Andi reported that objtool on vmlinux.o consumes more memory than his
system has, leading to horrific performance.

This is in part because we keep a struct instruction for every
instruction in the file in-memory. Shrink struct instruction by
removing the CFI state (which includes full register state) from it
and demand allocating it.

Given most instructions don't actually change CFI state, there's lots
of repetition there, so add a hash table to find previous CFI
instances.

Reduces memory consumption (and runtime) for processing an
x86_64-allyesconfig:

  pre:  4:40.84 real,   143.99 user,    44.18 sys,      30624988 mem
  post: 2:14.61 real,   108.58 user,    25.04 sys,      16396184 mem

Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624095147.756759107@infradead.org