[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 0/4] Generate package size statistics
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Dec 1 21:41:36 UTC 2014
Hello,
Buildroot currently doesn't provide any tool to help users analyze the
size contribution of the different files and packages to the overall
size of the filesystem. For people having tight system size
requirements, providing such tools could be useful.
This set of four patches implement tools that allow to generate a pie
chart graph of the size contribution of each package, plus CSV files
giving the detailed size statistics per-package and per-file.
In sequence:
- The first patch changes the external toolchain logic to separate
staging installation from target installation. Currently, target
files are installed in the staging installation step, which is
wrong and defeats the logic used in the following patches.
- The second patch adds a new pkg_step hook which collects information
about which file was installed by which package. The file size is
not collected at this point, since binary stripping takes place at
the very end of the build. This hook is conditionally enabled
depending on a new Config.in option, because the hook calculates
the md5 of all installed files at the beginning and end of each
package installation, which can be considered time consuming.
The information about which files are installed by which packages
is stored in $(O)/build/packages-file-list.txt.
- The third patch adds a Python script responsible for reading the
data in $(O)/build/packages-file-list.txt, looking at the size of
installed files, and generating the graph and CSV files.
- The fourth patch creates a new 'size-stats' make target to allow
users to easily generate the graph and CSV files.
Changes since v1:
- Improve the logic to properly take into account packages that
overwrite files installed by other packages.
- Make the new pkg_step hook optional.
- Extend the facility to not only generate a graph, but also CSV
files. As a consequence, everything was renamed from 'graph-size'
to 'size-stats'.
Best regards,
Thomas
Thomas Petazzoni (4):
toolchain-external: split target installation from staging
installation
pkg-generic: add step_pkg_size global instrumentation hook
support/scripts: add size-stats script
Makefile: implement a size-stats target
Config.in | 9 +
Makefile | 11 +
package/pkg-generic.mk | 36 ++++
support/scripts/size-stats | 225 +++++++++++++++++++++
toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external.mk | 36 +++-
5 files changed, 310 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 support/scripts/size-stats
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