From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: strip debug information when building compressed images
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:36:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190731193601.GA26551@ls3530.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190731192835.GA14352@ls3530.fritz.box>
* Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>:
> * Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>:
> > When compiling the kernel with debug information i got the following error:
> >
> > hppa-linux-gnu-ld: section .text LMA [0000000000e78000,0000000000e7b41f] overlaps section .rodata.compressed LMA [00000000000e0078,00000000015ad43d]
> > make[3]: *** [/home/svens/parisc-linux/src/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/Makefile:28: arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [/home/svens/parisc-linux/src/arch/parisc/boot/Makefile:17: arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
> > make[2]: Target 'arch/parisc/boot/bzImage' not remade because of errors.
> >
> > While this might also be fixed by adjusting the linker script, i think we
> > should strip the debug information when generating the compressed image. This
> > reduces the size of vmlinuz/lifimage from ~69MB to 6.6MB when full debug
> > information is enabled.
>
> I think keeping debug info is good.
> Can you test this patch instead?
> It converts a 141MB vmlinux boot file (with debug info) to a 32M vmlinuz for me.
>
> Ideally I would prefer something like
> . = MIN_OR_HIGHER_THAN_CURRENT_ADDR((SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START));
> to avoid the ifdef, but I'm missing the linker script expert knowledge...
Here is an updated patch without ifdefs:
Helge
diff --git a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index bfd7872739a3..2ac3a643f2eb 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ SECTIONS
*(.rodata.compressed)
}
- /* bootloader code and data starts behind area of extracted kernel */
- . = (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START);
+ /* bootloader code and data starts at least behind area of extracted kernel */
+ . = MAX(ABSOLUTE(.), (SZ_end - SZparisc_kernel_start + KERNEL_BINARY_TEXT_START));
/* align on next page boundary */
. = ALIGN(4096);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-31 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-31 17:19 [PATCH] parisc: strip debug information when building compressed images Sven Schnelle
2019-07-31 19:28 ` Helge Deller
2019-07-31 19:36 ` Helge Deller [this message]
2019-07-31 19:55 ` Sven Schnelle
2019-07-31 20:07 ` Helge Deller
2019-07-31 20:19 ` Sven Schnelle
2019-07-31 19:37 ` James Bottomley
2019-07-31 19:40 ` Helge Deller
2019-07-31 19:45 ` James Bottomley
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