Re: [PATCH-next v2] arm32: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Yuntao,

On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 2:24 PM liuyuntao (F) <liuyuntao12@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2024/3/9 16:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 07:14, liuyuntao (F) wrote:
> >> On 2024/3/8 21:15, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 16:12, Yuntao Liu wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for the tests, CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION and
> >> CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS do indeed result in a significant improvement.
> >> I found that arm32 still doesn't support CONFIG_LTO_CLANG. I've done
> >> some work on it, but without success. I'd like to learn more about the
> >> CONFIG_LTO_CLANG patch. Do you have any relevant links?
> >
> > I did not try to get it to boot and gave up when I did not see
> > any size improvement. I think there were previous attempts to
> > do it elsewhere, which I did not try to find.
> >
>
> I tested this patch, the size improvement was only about one
> ten-thousandth, and the compilation time had increased by about a quarter,
> and the kernel did not boot.
>
> Strangely, LTO has actually increased the compilation time
> significantly, which seems contrary to its purpose.

The purpose of LTO is to reduce code size. Doing so requires more
processing, hence the total build time increases.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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