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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
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Hello,

>> That said, a dwarf based checker tool should be able to do as good a job
>> (maybe a bit better because report is very informative and it may pick up
>> compiler alignments or padding options).
> So, Nicholas was kind enough to send me the two Linux Kernel binaries
> that he built with the tiny little interface change that we were
> discussing earlier. Here is what the abidiff[1] tools says about that
> interface change:

Thanks Nicholas and Dodji for this great example, for comparison I think
it would be nice to share the example run with kabi-dw too.
kabi-dw first dumps and unifies all type information into a set of text
files, the unification takes a significant time. Then the two sets of
these text files can be compared.

An example run would look like:
$ time ~/Code/kabi-dw/kabi-dw generate -o abi1 vmlinux.abi1
Generating symbol defs from vmlinux.abi1...

real 0m29.057s
user 0m13.929s
sys 0m14.862s
$ time ~/Code/kabi-dw/kabi-dw generate -o abi2 vmlinux.abi2
Generating symbol defs from vmlinux.abi2...

real 0m29.134s
user 0m13.961s
sys 0m14.921s
$ time ~/Code/kabi-dw/kabi-dw compare abi1 abi2
Changes detected in:
home/npiggin/src/linux.vectors/mm/memory.c/struct--blah.txt
Inserted:
+0x0 int y;
Shifted:
-0x0 int x;
+0x4 int x;


real 0m0.176s
user 0m0.135s
sys 0m0.040s

The size of the generated text files with all the relevant type
information is as follows:
$ du -hs abi1
16M abi1
$ find abi1 -type f | wc -l
3162

Warm regards,
-Stanislav

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