ANDROID: pahole -J -j1 for reproducible BTF
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> (cherry picked from commit 47a00e59)
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