Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 01:50:58 +0000
From:   Thomas =?utf-8?Q?Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <linux@weissschuh.net>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc:     x86@kernel.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] objtool: Honey, I shrunk the instruction
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 06:17:56PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Boris complained he could no longer build allyesconfig on his 32G desktop
> machine without having OOM terminate either objtool or chrome.
> 
> After talking about these patches on IRC, Nathan mentioned the linux-clang CI
> was also having trouble of recent, and these patches appear to make it happy
> again.
> 
> In total these patches shrink an allyesconfig run by about 6G:
> 
> pre:	5:58.22 real,   226.69 user,    131.22 sys,     26221520 mem
> post:	5:03.34 real,   210.75 user,    88.80 sys,      20241232 mem

Thanks!
This makes a huge difference on my memory-starved travel machine.
Seems to be back to about 6.0 levels.

Tested-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> # compile and run

> Also at:
> 
>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/log/?h=objtool/core
>