Re: [PATCH] m68k: Enable dead code elimination

[Finn Thain]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025, Daniel Palmer wrote:

> Allow the experimental dead code elimination config to be enabled.
> 
> For my 68000 nommu config this frees up a few hundred K of memory
> so seems worth while.
> 
> Boot and build tested on nommu and mmu enabled configs.
> 
> Before:
> Memory: 5388K/8192K available (1986K kernel code, 114K rwdata,
> 244K rodata, 92K init, 41K bss, 2624K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
> 
> After
> Memory: 5684K/8192K available (1714K kernel code, 112K rwdata,
> 228K rodata, 92K init, 37K bss, 2328K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxx>

With gcc-13.3, enabling DCE here recovered 0.5 MB of memory. Very nice! I 
saw no regressions in basic functionality. I tested on Aranym, Qemu and 
Quadra 605, including module load & unload.

Tested-by: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  arch/m68k/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/Kconfig b/arch/m68k/Kconfig
> index eb5bb6d36899..11835eb59d94 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/m68k/Kconfig
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ config M68K
>  	select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
>  	select HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
>  	select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS if !CPU_HAS_NO_UNALIGNED
> +	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
>  	select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
>  	select HAVE_UID16
>  	select MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE if MMU
>