Like ~160-170 MB versus 270-280? The modules are still being compressed to .zst files for both.

< Edited by stevenpusser :: Jun 28, 25, 18:57 >
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I thought I hit submit last week when I responded but I guess not.

Most likely there's some new data that's not being stripped part of enabling debugging. I'll dig into Debian's linux package and see if they had to make any adjustments for 6.15.
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Thanks, I see you fixed it. Now there's a new 555 Nvidia driver in Debian Experimental I need to backport to work with 6.15 kernels.
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Interesting, it must have been a bug in a version before v6.15.3 or .4. I'll mark this as resolved.
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Seems to be now recurring with Debian testing/unstable and Plucky. :(
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So I did some debugging to understand where this is coming from. It turns out that pahole v1.30 exclusively creates bloated .BTF sections in kernel modules. This specifically is affecting Trixie, and is unlikely to ever get "fixed" since it's not a bug that breaks things, but definitely wastes space.

To work around this, I unset CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES and Trixie went from 277mb to 128mb. Other releases also dropped to 128mb from about 170mb.
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