[PATCH 4/4] riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

[Jisheng Zhang]

When trying to run linux with various opensource riscv core on
resource limited FPGA platforms, for example, those FPGAs with less
than 16MB SDRAM, I want to save mem as much as possible. One of the
major technologies is kernel size optimizations, I found that riscv
does not currently support HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which
passes -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections to CFLAGS and passes the
--gc-sections flag to the linker.

This not only benefits my case on FPGA but also benefits defconfigs.
Here are some notable improvements from enabling this with defconfigs:

nommu_k210_defconfig:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex
1112009  410288   59837 1582134  182436     before
 962838  376656   51285 1390779  1538bb     after

rv32_defconfig:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex
8804455 2816544  290577 11911576 b5c198     before
8692295 2779872  288977 11761144 b375f8     after

defconfig:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex
9438267 3391332  485333 13314932 cb2b74     before
9285914 3350052  483349 13119315 c82f53     after

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig              | 1 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index f0663b52d052..a5feab2c3037 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ config RISCV
 	select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
+	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
 	select HAVE_PCI
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index e5f9f4677bbf..492dd4b8f3d6 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ SECTIONS
 	INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
 
 	.init.pi : {
-		*(.init.pi*)
+		KEEP(*(.init.pi*))
 	}
 
 	.init.bss : {
-		*(.init.bss)	/* from the EFI stub */
+		KEEP(*(.init.bss*))	/* from the EFI stub */
 	}
 	.exit.data :
 	{
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	. = ALIGN(8);
 	.alternative : {
 		__alt_start = .;
-		*(.alternative)
+		KEEP(*(.alternative))
 		__alt_end = .;
 	}
 	__init_end = .;
-- 
2.40.1