[PATCH v2 0/4] riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:40:59 PDT (-0700), ndesaulniers at google.com wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:46 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 11:19:31 PDT (-0700), Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> > On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:51:15 PDT (-0700), bjorn at kernel.org wrote:
>> >> Conor Dooley <conor at kernel.org> writes:
>> >>
>> >> [...]
>> >>
>> >>>> So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow.
>> >>>> That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour
>> >>>> link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very
>> >>>> slow to link?
>> >>>
>> >>> I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but
>> >>> it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD
>> >>> is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report
>> >>> back..
>> >>
>> >> I took palmer/for-next (1bd2963b2175 ("Merge patch series "riscv: enable
>> >> HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"")) for a tuxmake build with llvm-16:
>> >>
>> >>   | ~/src/tuxmake/run -v --wrapper ccache --target-arch riscv \
>> >>   |     --toolchain=llvm-16 --runtime docker --directory . -k \
>> >>   |     allyesconfig
>> >>
>> >> Took forever, but passed after 2.5h.
>> >
>> > Thanks.  I just re-ran mine 17/trunk LLD under time (rather that just
>> > checking top sometimes), it's at 1.5h but even that seems quite long.
>> >
>> > I guess this is sort of up to the LLVM folks: if it's expected that DCE
>> > takes a very long time to link then I'm not opposed to allowing it, but
>> > if this is probably a bug in LLD then it seems best to turn it off until
>> > we sort things out over there.
>> >
>> > I think maybe Nick or Nathan is the best bet to know?
>>
>> Looks like it's about 2h for me.  I'm going to drop these from my
>> staging tree in the interest of making progress on other stuff, but if
>> this is just expected behavior them I'm OK taking them (though that's
>> too much compute for me to test regularly):
>>
>> $ time ../../../../llvm/install/bin/ld.lld -melf64lriscv -z noexecstack -r -o vmlinux.o --whole-archive vmlinux.a --no-whole-archive --start-group ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a --end-group
>>
>> real    111m50.678s
>> user    111m18.739s
>> sys     1m13.147s
>
> Ah, I think you meant s/allmodconfig/allyesconfig/ in your initial
> report.  That makes more sense, and I can reproduce.  Let me work on a
> report.

Awesome, thanks!

>
>>
>> >> CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="Debian clang version 16.0.6 (++20230610113307+7cbf1a259152-1~exp1~20230610233402.106)"
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Björn