On Mon, 02 Mar 2009, Miles Bader wrote: > Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Previous debian kernel packages were kind of big but the recent > >> packaging of 2.6.28 is _much_ bigger -- > > > > Something very suspicious about those sizes too: the size of the .debs > > for those versions is actually more or less the same, seeming to only > > reflect the sort of natural growth you'd expect with the version bump: > > A bit more poking around, and the problem seems to the that the > "__this_module" symbol in each kernel module has suddenly grown from > about 4KB to about 64KB. Is this a bug...? > > $ size /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.ko > text data bss dec hex filename > 17144 5600 0 22744 58d8 > /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.ko > $ size /lib/modules/2.6.28-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.ko > text data bss dec hex filename > 18216 66896 0 85112 14c78 > /lib/modules/2.6.28-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.ko > > $ readelf -s /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.ko|grep > _this_module > 102: 0000000000000000 4736 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 23 __this_module > $ readelf -s /lib/modules/2.6.28-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.ko|grep > _this_module > 101: 0000000000000000 66048 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 23 __this_module
this is fixed for 2.6.29, as we won't release with 2.6.28 not worth more speculations. it poped up due to: /boot/config-2.6.27-1-amd64:CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32 /boot/config-2.6.28-1-amd64:CONFIG_NR_CPUS=512 -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
