[PATCH v2 0/4] riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:47:07 PDT (-0700), ndesaulniers at google.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 4:41 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:32:32 PDT (-0700), ndesaulniers at google.com wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 4:13 PM Conor Dooley <conor at kernel.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:05:55PM -0400, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 6:06 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com> wrote:
>> >> > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 06:54:33 PDT (-0700), Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> >> > > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), jszhang at kernel.org wrote:
>> >> > > >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 07:49:17AM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> >> > > >>> On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), jszhang at kernel.org wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > > >> Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by
>> >> > > >> kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this
>> >> > > >> series is based on 6.4-rc2.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Thanks.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on
>> >> > > allmodconfig.  I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few
>> >> > > other things I have in flight still.
>> >> >
>> >> > Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
>> >> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230517082936.37563-1-falcon@tinylab.org/
>> >>
>> >> Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different
>> >> people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was
>> >> superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).
>> >
>> > Ah! I've been testing the deprecated patch set, sorry I just looked on
>> > lore for "dead code" on riscv-linux and grabbed the first thread,
>> > without noticing the difference in authors or new version numbers for
>> > distinct series. ok, nevermind my noise.  I'll follow up with the
>> > correct patch set, sorry!
>>
>> Ya, I hadn't even noticed the v3 because I pretty much only look at
>> patchwork these days.  Like we talked about in IRC, I'm going to go test
>> the merge of this one and see what's up -- I've got it staged at
>> <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=1bd2963b21758a773206a1cb67c93e7a8ae8a195>,
>> though that won't be a stable hash if it's actually broken...
>
> Ok, https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230523165502.2592-1-jszhang@kernel.org/
> built for me.  If you're seeing a hang, please let me know what
> version of LLD you're using and I'll build that tag from source to see
> if I can reproduce, then bisect if so.
>
> $ ARCH=riscv LLVM=1 /usr/bin/time -v make -j128 allmodconfig vmlinux
> ...
>         Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 2:35.68
> ...
>
> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com> # build

OK, it triggered enough of a rebuild that it might take a bit for 
anything to filter out.

Thanks!

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>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Conor.
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>> >
>> > --
>> > Thanks,
>> > ~Nick Desaulniers
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> -- 
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers