[PATCH v3] RISC-V: Enable dead code elimination
Bin Meng
bmeng at tinylab.org
Sat May 20 21:09:49 PDT 2023
> 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(-)
Tested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng at tinylab.org>
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