Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] objtool: reduce maximum memory usage

[Thomas Weißschuh]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 04:03:56PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 09:43:39PM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 04:00:57PM +0000, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > > The processing of vmlinux.o with objtool is the most memory-intensive step
> > > of a kernel build. By reducing the maximum memory usage here we can reduce
> > > the maximum memory usage of the whole kernel build.
> > > Therefore memory pressure on memory starved machines is relieved during
> > > kernel builds and the build is faster as less swapping has to occur.
> > 
> > Friendly ping.
> > 
> > These patches can also applied one by one, the only dependency is from
> > patch 5 to patch 4.
> 
> Thanks, I'll go ahead and take five of them now.

Thanks.

I have another half-finished series that replaces the doubly-linked
list_heads used by elf.h with a custom singly-linked list.
This would save a few pointers per struct.

Do you think this is worth it?

Thomas