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Keeping data small
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When many applets are compiled into busybox, all rw data and
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bss for each applet are concatenated. Including those from libc,
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if static bbox is built. When bbox is started, _all_ this data
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is allocated, not just that one part for selected applet.
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What "allocated" exactly means, depends on arch.
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On nommu it's probably bites the most, actually using real
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RAM for rwdata and bss. On i386, bss is lazily allocated
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by COWed zero pages. Not sure about rwdata - also COW?
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Small experiment measures "parasitic" bbox memory consumption.
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Here we start 1000 "busybox sleep 10" in parallel.
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bbox binary is practically allyesconfig static one,
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built against uclibc:
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bash-3.2# nmeter '%t %c %b %m %p %[pn]'
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23:17:28 .......... 0 0 168M 0 147
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23:17:29 .......... 0 0 168M 0 147
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23:17:30 U......... 0 0 168M 1 147
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23:17:31 SU........ 0 188k 181M 244 391
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23:17:32 SSSSUUU... 0 0 223M 757 1147
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23:17:33 UUU....... 0 0 223M 0 1147
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23:17:34 U......... 0 0 223M 1 1147
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23:17:35 .......... 0 0 223M 0 1147
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23:17:36 .......... 0 0 223M 0 1147
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23:17:37 S......... 0 0 223M 0 1147
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23:17:38 .......... 0 0 223M 1 1147
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23:17:39 .......... 0 0 223M 0 1147
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23:17:40 .......... 0 0 223M 0 1147
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23:17:41 .......... 0 0 210M 0 906
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23:17:42 .......... 0 0 168M 1 147
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23:17:43 .......... 0 0 168M 0 147
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This requires 55M of memory. Thus 1 trivial busybox applet
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takes 55k of userspace memory (nmeter doesn't account for kernel-side
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allocations). Definitely can be improved.
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Thus we should avoid large global data in our applets,
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and should minimize usage of libc functions which implicitly use
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such structures in libc.
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Example 1
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One example how to reduce global data usage is in
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archival/libunarchive/decompress_unzip.c:
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/* This is somewhat complex-looking arrangement, but it allows
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* to place decompressor state either in bss or in
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* malloc'ed space simply by changing #defines below.
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* Sizes on i386:
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* text data bss dec hex
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* 5256 0 108 5364 14f4 - bss
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* 4915 0 0 4915 1333 - malloc
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*/
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#define STATE_IN_BSS 0
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#define STATE_IN_MALLOC 1
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This example completely eliminates globals in that module.
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Required memory is allocated in inflate_gunzip() [its main module]
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and then passed down to all subroutines which need to access globals
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as a parameter.
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Example 2
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In case you don't want to pass this additional parameter everywhere,
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take a look at archival/gzip.c. Here all global data is replaced by
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singe global pointer (ptr_to_globals) to allocated storage.
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In order to not duplicate ptr_to_globals in every applet, you can
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reuse single common one. It is defined in libbb/messages.c
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as void *ptr_to_globals, but is NOT declared in libbb.h.
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You first define a struct:
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struct my_globals { int a; char buf[1000]; };
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and then declare that ptr_to_globals is a pointer to it:
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extern struct my_globals *ptr_to_globals;
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#define G (*ptr_to_globals)
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Linker magic enures that these two merge into single pointer object.
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Now initialize it in <applet>_main():
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ptr_to_globals = xzalloc(sizeof(G));
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and you can reference "globals" by G.a, G.buf and so on, in any function.
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