scripts/bloat-o-meter

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/bloat-o-meter

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System
Linux kernel
Corpus path
scripts/bloat-o-meter
Extension
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4001 bytes
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114
Domain
Support Tooling And Documentation
Bucket
scripts
Inferred role
Support Tooling And Documentation: scripts
Status
atlas-only

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Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# Copyright 2004 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# inspired by perl Bloat-O-Meter (c) 1997 by Andi Kleen
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
# of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.

import sys, os, re, argparse
from signal import signal, SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL

signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL)

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Simple script used to compare the symbol sizes of 2 object files")
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
group.add_argument('-c', help='categorize output based on symbol type', action='store_true')
group.add_argument('-d', help='Show delta of Data Section', action='store_true')
group.add_argument('-t', help='Show delta of text Section', action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('-p', dest='prefix', help='Arch prefix for the tool being used. Useful in cross build scenarios')
parser.add_argument('file_old', help='First file to compare')
parser.add_argument('file_new', help='Second file to compare')

args = parser.parse_args()

re_NUMBER = re.compile(r'\.[0-9]+')

def getsizes(file, format):
    sym = {}
    nm = "nm"
    if args.prefix:
        nm = "{}nm".format(args.prefix)

    with os.popen("{} --size-sort {}".format(nm, file)) as f:
        for line in f:
            if line.startswith("\n") or ":" in line:
                continue
            size, type, name = line.split()
            if type in format:
                # strip generated symbols
                if name.startswith("__mod_"): continue
                if name.startswith("__se_sys"): continue
                if name.startswith("__se_compat_sys"): continue
                if name.startswith("__addressable_"): continue
                if name.startswith("__noinstr_text_start"): continue
                if name.startswith("_sdata"): continue
                if name == "linux_banner": continue
                if name == "vermagic": continue
                # statics and some other optimizations adds random .NUMBER
                name = re_NUMBER.sub('', name)
                sym[name] = sym.get(name, 0) + int(size, 16)
    return sym

def calc(oldfile, newfile, format):
    old = getsizes(oldfile, format)
    new = getsizes(newfile, format)
    grow, shrink, add, remove, up, down = 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
    delta, common = [], {}
    otot, ntot = 0, 0

    for a in old:
        if a in new:
            common[a] = 1

    for name in old:
        otot += old[name]
        if name not in common:
            remove += 1
            down += old[name]
            delta.append((-old[name], name))

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