http://blog.chinaunix.net/uid-9672747-id-3942910.html

http://blog.csdn.net/hansel/article/details/1882255


编译一个内核时，习惯性的在install目标下加了命令：

$(STRIP)  --strip-all --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment  test.ko

结果在insmod test.ko时出现错误：

test: module has no symbols (stripped?)

..................

上网查了以下，发现内核模块在插入时，insmod会使用模块的一些符号信息。那是不是内核模块不可以被stip呢？答案是可以strp 但不能strip太多东西，应该使用：

$(STRIP)  --strip-debug test.ko



http://hi.baidu.com/myiaas/item/cefd1edacd0d4d1220e25060

Linux内核编译，模块尺寸变大的解决办法

现象：

   最近在研究Linux的裁剪定制，编译内核的时候发现编译后同样的模块比以前内核版本的大好多，比如下面这个例子：

[root@CentOS5 ~]# find /lib/modules/ -name ext3.ko

/lib/modules/3.8.8-chensh3.0/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.18-308.el5/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko

[root@CentOS5 ~]# ll -h /lib/modules/3.8.8-chensh3.0/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.7M 09-08 07:33 /lib/modules/3.8.8-chensh3.0/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko

[root@CentOS5 ~]# ll -h /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.el5/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko

-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 226K 2012-02-22 /lib/modules/2.6.18-308.el5/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko

[root@CentOS5 ~]#


问题分析和解决办法：


   The default kernel configuration is configured to support as many hardware as possible. A non-stripped kernel with default configuration resulted in a size of 1897996 kB (including kernel + modules). When stripping many unnecessary drivers and options, it resulted in a size of 892892 kB which is a size reduction of 53% compared to the stock kernel.

   When installing the kernel modules, append the INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 option. This will strip all debugging symbols and reduced the size by 92% for me (from 892892 kB to 69356 kB). Note this will only affects modules to be installed and not the kernel (vmlinuz) itself.


Use the INSTALL_MOD_STRIP option for removing debugging symbols:

# make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 modules_install


Similarly, for building the deb packages:

# make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 deb-pkg