On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 06:47:54PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Commit 60a3cdd06394 ("x86: add optimized inlining") introduced
> CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING, but it has been available only for x86.
>
> The idea is obviously arch-agnostic. This commit moves the config
> entry from arch/x86/Kconfig.debug to lib/Kconfig.debug so that all
> architectures can benefit from it.
>
> This can make a huge difference in kernel image size especially when
> CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is enabled.
>
> For example, I got 3.5% smaller arm64 kernel for v5.1-rc1.
>
> dec file
> 18983424 arch/arm64/boot/Image.before
> 18321920 arch/arm64/boot/Image.after
>
> This also slightly improves the "Kernel hacking" Kconfig menu as
> e61aca5158a8 ("Merge branch 'kconfig-diet' from Dave Hansen') suggested;
> this config option would be a good fit in the "compiler option" menu.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - split into a separate patch
>
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 14 --------------
> include/linux/compiler_types.h | 3 +--
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
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