kotest refused to count string literals for MIPS kernel modules. Reason was in that gcc does not put sizes/object types of unnamed string literals - it looks in asm files like
$LC0:
.ascii "const string %f\012\000"
At the same time it does for named literals: .type fmt_msg, @object
.size fmt_msg, 15
fmt_msg:
.ascii "enter with %d\012\000"
I am too lazy to investigate which ancient specification from past century it follows. Fortunately this is easy repairable problem - just calculate size of symbol as distance to next one (or till end of section). Since I suspect that this is not the only architecture with similar gcc behavior, I add -f option to do such kind of sizes recalculation
Some results for mips32 kernel 6.0:find ~/linux60/ -type f -name "*.ko" | xargs ./kotest | awk -f total.awk
1890293
1497092