From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Subject: kernel: add a config option for keeping the kallsyms table uncompressed, saving ~9kb kernel size after lzma on ar71xx

[john@phrozen.org: added to my upstream queue 30.12.2016]
lede-commit: e0e3509b5ce2ccf93d4d67ea907613f5f7ec2eed
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
---
 init/Kconfig            | 11 +++++++++++
 kernel/kallsyms.c       |  8 ++++++++
 scripts/kallsyms.c      | 12 ++++++++++++
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh |  4 ++++
 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1451,6 +1451,17 @@ config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
 	  the unaligned access emulation.
 	  see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
 
+config KALLSYMS_UNCOMPRESSED
+	bool "Keep kallsyms uncompressed"
+	depends on KALLSYMS
+	help
+		Normally kallsyms contains compressed symbols (using a token table),
+		reducing the uncompressed kernel image size. Keeping the symbol table
+		uncompressed significantly improves the size of this part in compressed
+		kernel images.
+
+		Say N unless you need compressed kernel images to be small.
+
 config HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM
 	bool
 
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ static unsigned int kallsyms_expand_symb
 	 * For every byte on the compressed symbol data, copy the table
 	 * entry for that byte.
 	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS_UNCOMPRESSED
+	memcpy(result, data + 1, len - 1);
+	result += len - 1;
+	len = 0;
+#endif
 	while (len) {
 		tptr = &kallsyms_token_table[kallsyms_token_index[*data]];
 		data++;
@@ -101,6 +106,9 @@ tail:
  */
 static char kallsyms_get_symbol_type(unsigned int off)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS_UNCOMPRESSED
+	return kallsyms_names[off + 1];
+#endif
 	/*
 	 * Get just the first code, look it up in the token table,
 	 * and return the first char from this token.
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ static struct addr_range percpu_range =
 static struct sym_entry **table;
 static unsigned int table_size, table_cnt;
 static int all_symbols;
+static int uncompressed;
 static int absolute_percpu;
 static int base_relative;
 static int lto_clang;
@@ -453,13 +454,15 @@ static void write_src(void)
 	}
 	printf("\n");
 
-	/*
-	 * Now that we wrote out the compressed symbol names, restore the
-	 * original names, which are needed in some of the later steps.
-	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++) {
-		expand_symbol(table[i]->sym, table[i]->len, buf);
-		strcpy((char *)table[i]->sym, buf);
+	if (!uncompressed) {
+		/*
+		 * Now that we wrote out the compressed symbol names, restore the
+		 * original names, which are needed in some of the later steps.
+		 */
+		for (i = 0; i < table_cnt; i++) {
+			expand_symbol(table[i]->sym, table[i]->len, buf);
+			strcpy((char *)table[i]->sym, buf);
+		}
 	}
 
 	output_label("kallsyms_markers");
@@ -469,20 +472,22 @@ static void write_src(void)
 
 	free(markers);
 
-	output_label("kallsyms_token_table");
-	off = 0;
-	for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
-		best_idx[i] = off;
-		expand_symbol(best_table[i], best_table_len[i], buf);
-		printf("\t.asciz\t\"%s\"\n", buf);
-		off += strlen(buf) + 1;
-	}
-	printf("\n");
+	if (!uncompressed) {
+		output_label("kallsyms_token_table");
+		off = 0;
+		for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
+			best_idx[i] = off;
+			expand_symbol(best_table[i], best_table_len[i], buf);
+			printf("\t.asciz\t\"%s\"\n", buf);
+			off += strlen(buf) + 1;
+		}
+		printf("\n");
 
-	output_label("kallsyms_token_index");
-	for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)
-		printf("\t.short\t%d\n", best_idx[i]);
-	printf("\n");
+		output_label("kallsyms_token_index");
+		for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)
+			printf("\t.short\t%d\n", best_idx[i]);
+		printf("\n");
+	}
 
 	if (!base_relative)
 		output_label("kallsyms_addresses");
@@ -582,6 +587,9 @@ static unsigned char *find_token(unsigne
 {
 	int i;
 
+	if (uncompressed)
+		return NULL;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < len - 1; i++) {
 		if (str[i] == token[0] && str[i+1] == token[1])
 			return &str[i];
@@ -654,6 +662,9 @@ static void optimize_result(void)
 {
 	int i, best;
 
+	if (uncompressed)
+		return;
+
 	/* using the '\0' symbol last allows compress_symbols to use standard
 	 * fast string functions */
 	for (i = 255; i >= 0; i--) {
@@ -815,6 +826,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			{"absolute-percpu", no_argument, &absolute_percpu, 1},
 			{"base-relative",   no_argument, &base_relative,   1},
 			{"lto-clang",       no_argument, &lto_clang,       1},
+			{"uncompressed",   no_argument, &uncompressed,   1},
 			{},
 		};
 
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -165,6 +165,10 @@ kallsyms()
 		kallsymopt="${kallsymopt} --lto-clang"
 	fi
 
+	if is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS_UNCOMPRESSED; then
+		kallsymopt="${kallsymopt} --uncompressed"
+	fi
+
 	info KSYMS ${2}
 	scripts/kallsyms ${kallsymopt} ${1} > ${2}
 }