On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Siqi Lin <siqi...@google.com> wrote: > I'm OK with sticking with the <2.27 binutils behavior. The gzip data is:
That's what this patch does; goes back to the <2.27 behavior for 2.27+. > binutils 2.25: > Image 41467904 > Image.gz 13395151 > binutils 2.27: > Image 41467392 > Image.gz 14114953 > > gzipped kernel increased by 0.69 MiB. That's without this patch applied? With it applied, what are the stats (for gzip)? > The one special case I see is !CONFIG_RELOCATABLE and compression is > used, where there's a tradeoff between compressed image size and the > benefit of dynamic relocs. if !CONFIG_RELOCATABLE, then this patch (well v2 which will use CONFIG_RELOCATABLE rather than CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) doesn't do anything.
