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Bug#870185: armel/marvell kernel size



On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 21:16 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 02:35 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
> > > 
> > > The real problem is kernel size (after decompression) increased
> > > from
> > > 5MB to 8MB. (detail is in my previous post)
> > > This looks like a bug, since usually kernel size grows gradually,
> > > not
> > > in +3MB way this time.
> > 
> > Some things to check:
> > 
> > - If you build 4.10 with the config used for 4.11 (whichever is the
> > first larger one), is the size 5 MB or 8 MB?
> 
> I build vanilla kernel with debian config, and here's the result.
> (images are under arch/arm/boot/)
> 
> linux_4.10.7 with debian 4.10.7 config
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rosh rosh 5757504 Aug 20 06:40 Image
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rosh rosh 2012496 Aug 20 06:40 zImage
> 
> linux_4.11.6 with debian 4.11.6 config
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rosh rosh 8763712 Aug 20 07:03 Image
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rosh rosh 2064576 Aug 20 07:03 zImage
> 
> linux_4.11.6 with debian 4.10.7 config
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rosh rosh 5891216 Aug 20 07:43 Image
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rosh rosh 2049216 Aug 20 07:43 zImage
> 
> linux_4.10.7 with debian 4.11.6 config
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rosh rosh 5811408 Aug 20 07:56 Image
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rosh rosh 2032704 Aug 20 07:56 zImage
> 
> So it seems the problem is pointing to config changes since 4.11.

OK, then try using 4.11.6 source and bisecting the Debian config
changes.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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