_sdata is a linker symbol, but bloat-o-meter  may consider it
as a real variable:

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.orig vmlinux
add/remove: 7/1 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 3437/-4096 (-659)
Function                                     old     new   delta
crc32table_le                                  -    1024   +1024
crc32table_be                                  -    1024   +1024
crc32ctable_le                                 -    1024   +1024
byte_rev_table                                 -     256    +256
crc32_be                                       -      39     +39
crc32c                                         -      35     +35
crc32_le                                       -      35     +35
_sdata                                      4096       -   -4096
Total: Before=8592564398, After=8592563739, chg -0.00%

With the patch:

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter vmlinux.orig vmlinux
add/remove: 7/0 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 3437/0 (3437)
Function                                     old     new   delta
crc32table_le                                  -    1024   +1024
crc32table_be                                  -    1024   +1024
crc32ctable_le                                 -    1024   +1024
byte_rev_table                                 -     256    +256
crc32_be                                       -      39     +39
crc32c                                         -      35     +35
crc32_le                                       -      35     +35
Total: Before=8592560302, After=8592563739, chg +0.00%

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
---
 scripts/bloat-o-meter | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/bloat-o-meter b/scripts/bloat-o-meter
index 9b4fb996d95b..5868a8b11b0f 100755
--- a/scripts/bloat-o-meter
+++ b/scripts/bloat-o-meter
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ def getsizes(file, format):
                 if name.startswith("__se_compat_sys"): continue
                 if name.startswith("__addressable_"): continue
                 if name.startswith("__noinstr_text_start"): continue
+                if name.startswith("_sdata"): continue
                 if name == "linux_banner": continue
                 if name == "vermagic": continue
                 # statics and some other optimizations adds random .NUMBER
-- 
2.51.0