On 9/14/07, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > With some tweaks it worked for me.
> Could you post your tweaked version - against an older kernel is OK.
The inlined patch should apply cleanly on top of the patch posted on
the link I mentioned before. The *.S files are the ones I chose to
Hi Abhisshek.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:56:14PM +0530, Abhishek Sagar wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Patches were run-tested on x86_64, and likely do not work on any other arch
> > (need to add KEEP() to arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S for each arch).
>
> This is
On 9/12/07, Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Patches were run-tested on x86_64, and likely do not work on any other arch
> (need to add KEEP() to arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S for each arch).
This is good stuff. I had been using a ported variant of this
optimization for ARM on quite an ol
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 22:03, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 5159478 1005139 406784 6571401 644589 linux-2.6.23-rc4.org/vmlinux
> > 5131822 996090 401439 6529351 63a147 linux-2.6.23-rc4.gc/vmlin
Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 5159478 1005139 406784 6571401 644589 linux-2.6.23-rc4.org/vmlinux
> 5131822 996090 401439 6529351 63a147 linux-2.6.23-rc4.gc/vmlinux
>
> In this particular case, 402 objects were discarded, sav
Build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux
Newer gcc and binutils can do dead code and data removal
at link time. It is achieved using combination of
-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections options for gcc and
--gc-sections for ld.
Theory of operation:
Option -ffunction-sections instructs
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