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    kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table · 2213e9a6
    Ard Biesheuvel authored
    Similar to how relative extables are implemented, it is possible to emit
    the kallsyms table in such a way that it contains offsets relative to
    some anchor point in the kernel image rather than absolute addresses.
    
    On 64-bit architectures, it cuts the size of the kallsyms address table
    in half, since offsets between kernel symbols can typically be expressed
    in 32 bits.  This saves several hundreds of kilobytes of permanent
    .rodata on average.  In addition, the kallsyms address table is no
    longer subject to dynamic relocation when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is in
    effect, so the relocation work done after decompression now doesn't have
    to do relocation updates for all these values.  This saves up to 24
    bytes (i.e., the size of a ELF64 RELA relocation table entry) per value,
    which easily adds up to a couple of megabytes of uncompressed __init
    data on ppc64 or arm64.  Even if these relocation entries typically
    compress well, the combined size reducti...
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