Having the trace calls defined in the always inlined kmalloc functions
in include/linux/slub_def.h causes a lot of code duplication as the
trace functions get instantiated for each kamalloc call site. This can
simply be removed by pushing the trace calls down into the functions in
slub.c.
On my x86_64 built this patch shrinks the code size of the kernel by
approx 29K and also shrinks the code size of many modules -- too many to
list here ;)
size vmlinux.o reports
text data bss dec hex filename
4777011 602052 763072 6142135 5db8b7 vmlinux.o
4747120 602388 763072 6112580 5d4544 vmlinux.o.patch
index 13fffe1..32b89ee 100644This doesn't make sense to be out-of-line for the !CONFIG_TRACE case. I'd just wrap that with "#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE" and put an inline version in the header for !TRACE.
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
+void *kmalloc_order(size_t size, gfp_t flags, unsigned int order)
+{
+ void *ret = (void *) __get_free_pages(flags | __GFP_COMP, order);
+
+ kmemleak_alloc(ret, size, 1, flags);
+ trace_kmalloc(_RET_IP_, ret, size, PAGE_SIZE<< order, flags);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_order);
+