From ea01e798e2d27fd04142e0473ca36570fa9d9218 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:02:17 +0000 Subject: module: reduce module image and resident size Resulting reduction (x86-64, gcc 4.1.2) with my (special purpose, i.e. much reduced) configurations: - 16k kernel resident size - 180k module resident size - 10k module image size Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/module.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index b0d7c2a41bd9..031bf26af8ea 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1828,8 +1828,9 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod, unwindex = find_sec(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, ARCH_UNWIND_SECTION_NAME); #endif - /* Don't keep modinfo section */ + /* Don't keep modinfo and version sections. */ sechdrs[infoindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC; + sechdrs[versindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC; #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS /* Keep symbol and string tables for decoding later. */ sechdrs[symindex].sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC; -- cgit v1.2.3