module: reduce module image and resident size

Resulting reduction (x86-64, gcc 4.1.2) with my (special purpose, i.e.
much reduced) configurations:
- 16k kernel resident size
- 180k module resident size
- 10k module image size

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index a29c2eb..3e03b1a 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ void *__symbol_get_gpl(const char *symbol);
        extern typeof(sym) sym;                                 \
        __CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec)                                  \
        static const char __kstrtab_##sym[]                     \
-       __attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings")))           \
+       __attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"), aligned(1))) \
        = MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #sym;                            \
        static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym       \
        __used                                                  \

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index b0d7c2a..031bf26 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1828,8 +1828,9 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
        unwindex = find_sec(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, ARCH_UNWIND_SECTION_NAME);
 #endif
 
-       /* Don't keep modinfo section */
+       /* Don't keep modinfo and version sections. */
        sechdrs[infoindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC;
+       sechdrs[versindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC;
 #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
        /* Keep symbol and string tables for decoding later. */
        sechdrs[symindex].sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC;