Versions of pahole from 1.22 support multi-threaded operation with
separate CUs being processed independently. This results in
non-deterministic and effectively non-reproducible output for kernel
objects. Later versions of pahole aim to support determinism by
retiring CUs in order.
We regain determinism by restricting parallelism to 1 at the cost of
some performance.
The default parallelism of `pahole -J` is the number of online
processors * 1.1. Experiments on a workstation with 36 cores reveal
that performance is actually worse for `vmlinux` at `-j` (8.9s) than
at `-j3` (7.8s) and the optimum is around `-j9` (4.9s). No parallelism
is slowest (18.8s), but still acceptable for GKI.
Bug: 342094847
Change-Id: Ibd72ac638faa1826f6655b336cc7001591ea70f1
Signed-off-by: Giuliano Procida <gprocida@google.com>
