Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Allow selection of CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

[Christophe LEROY]

Le 17/04/2018 Ã 18:45, Mathieu Malaterre a ÃcritÂ:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Christophe Leroy
> <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > This option does dead code and data elimination with the linker by
> > compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
> > --gc-sections.
> >
> > By selecting this option on mpc885_ads_defconfig,
> > vmlinux LOAD segment size gets reduced by 10%
> >
> > Program Header before the patch:
> >      LOAD off    0x00010000 vaddr 0xc0000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**16
> >           filesz 0x0036eda4 memsz 0x0038de04 flags rwx
> >
> > Program Header after the patch:
> >      LOAD off    0x00010000 vaddr 0xc0000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**16
> >           filesz 0x00316da4 memsz 0x00334268 flags rwx
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > index 8fe4353be5e3..e1fac49cf465 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > @@ -888,6 +888,14 @@ config PPC_MEM_KEYS
> >
> >            If unsure, say y.
> >
> > +config PPC_UNUSED_ELIMINATION
> > +       bool "Eliminate unused functions and data from vmlinux"
> > +       default n
> > +       select LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
> > +       help
> > +         Select this to do dead code and data elimination with the linker
> > +         by compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking
> > +         with --gc-sections.
> >   endmenu
>
> Just for reference, I cannot boot my Mac Mini G4 anymore (yaboot). The
> messages I can see (prom_init) are:

Which version of GCC do you use ?

Can you provide the generated System.map with and without that option 
active ?

Thanks
Christophe

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