[RFC] arm: add __initbss section attribute
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Mon Oct 12 03:21:16 PDT 2015
On Monday 12 October 2015 11:59:16 yalin wang wrote:
> This attribute can make init data to be into .initbss section,
> this will make the data to be NO_BITS in vmlinux, can shrink the
> Image file size, and speed up the boot up time.
>
> Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010 at gmail.com>
Do you have an estimate of how much it gains?
In multi_v7_defconfig, I see a total of 3367 symbols with
406016 bytes init.data, but only 348 bytes of those are
in zero-initialized symbols.
Arnd
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