Re: kernel size change

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 03:01:54PM +0000, RVP wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2023, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> 
> > The amd64 maximum page size (or something like that) is 2MiB and I
> > suspect a section of your kernel just crossed that boundary.  Anyway,
> > check things like size(1) and nm(1) --print-size (maybe with --size-sort)
> > on both kernels.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, that's more likely. A diff of `readelf -We' on the kernels would
> confirm this. See if the offset has changed a lot.

Many changes, but this one's the one you mean, I think:
66,67c66,67
<   LOAD           0x200000 0xffffffff80200000 0x0000000000200000 0x14c04d0 0x14c04d0 R E 0x200000
<   LOAD           0x1800000 0xffffffff81800000 0x0000000001800000 0x0d31e8 0x200000 RW  0x200000
---
>   LOAD           0x200000 0xffffffff80200000 0x0000000000200000 0x16c1998 0x16c1998 R E 0x200000
>   LOAD           0x1a00000 0xffffffff81a00000 0x0000000001a00000 0x0d3228 0x200000 RW  0x200000

 Thomas