Enable --print-gc-sections for --gc-sections to monitor which sections are really eliminated. Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 3 +++ init/Kconfig | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 57698d048e2c..a4e522b747cb 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -938,6 +938,9 @@ ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS_KERNEL += -Zfunction-sections=y LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --gc-sections +ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION_DEBUG +LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --print-gc-sections +endif endif ifdef CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 6d35728b94b2..4350d8ba7db4 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1404,6 +1404,13 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your own risk. +config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION_DEBUG + bool "Debug dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION + default n + help + Enable --print-gc-sections for --gc-sections + config LD_ORPHAN_WARN def_bool y depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN -- 2.25.1
