> So I test-built a config close to your config with both tracing and perf 
> on and off (note, I had OPROFILE and KVM in a module), and got the 
> following kernel sizes:

Yes I mistakenly included KVM (I think that was the difference)
Without KVM it's ~272k text, 96k BSS data delta.

Still big, but not quite as bad as I made it out to be.

Thanks for catching.

-Andi