Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selected

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Le 20/04/2018 à 22:08, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:00:49 +0200
Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This requires further changes to linker script to KEEP some tables
and wildcard compiler generated sections into the right place. This
includes pp32 modifications from Christophe Leroy.

When compiling powernv_defconfig with this option:

text       data      bss       dec        filename
11827621   4810490   1341080   17979191   vmlinux
11752437   4598858   1338776   17690071   vmlinux.dcde

Resulting kernel is almost 400kB smaller (and still boots).

[ppc32 numbers here]

^^^

Do you want somebody else to provide those numbers ?

If you have a booting kernel, yes some more numbers would be good.

I've used /boot/config-4.15.0-2-powerpc from my current debian
package. Rebuild master with and without option, boot ok, load/unload
module ok.

$ size nick/vmlinux.with*
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
7386425 2364370 1425432 11176227 aa8923 nick/vmlinux.with
7461457 2475122 1428064 11364643 ad6923 nick/vmlinux.without

This is not clear why with option the size of kernel is slightly bigger:

The file contains also debug symbols, which might differ.
Only the LOAD part of the file is interesting, that's the part you get when doing ppc-linux-objcopy vmlinux vmlinux.bin -O binary

You can see it with readelf -l vmlinux

Christophe


$ du -sk nick/vmlinux.with*
124488 nick/vmlinux.with
124004 nick/vmlinux.without


Thanks,
Nick

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