[PATCH v3] RISC-V: Enable dead code elimination
Zhangjin Wu
falcon at tinylab.org
Wed May 17 01:41:34 PDT 2023
Hello, Maintainers
No changes from v2 to v3, only rebased on v6.4-rc2, it compiled and
booted.
This is part of my tinylinux work for RISC-V, the other patches are
coming soon.
Thanks,
Zhangjin Wu
> Select CONFIG_HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for RISC-V, allowing
> the user to enable dead code elimination. In order for this to work,
> ensure that we keep the alternative table by annotating them with KEEP.
>
> This boots well on qemu with both rv32_defconfig & rv64 defconfig, but
> it only shrinks their builds by ~1%, a smaller config is thereforce
> customized to test this feature:
>
> | rv32 | rv64
> --------|------------------------|---------------------
> No DCE | 4460684 | 4893488
> DCE | 3986716 | 4376400
> Shrink | 473968 (~10.6%) | 517088 (~10.5%)
>
> The config used above only reserves necessary options to boot on qemu
> with serial console, more like the size-critical embedded scenes:
>
> - rv64 config: https://pastebin.com/crz82T0s
> - rv32 config: rv64 config + 32-bit.config
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon at tinylab.org>
> ---
> arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index 348c0fa1fc8c..d2eb1a862ea8 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ config RISCV
> select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
> select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
> select HAVE_RETHOOK 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..0f5dfbc113d4 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ SECTIONS
> . = ALIGN(8);
> .alternative : {
> __alt_start = .;
> - *(.alternative)
> + KEEP(*(.alternative))
> __alt_end = .;
> }
> __init_end = .;
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