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From: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
To: Falcon <falcon@tinylab.org>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>,
	Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Enable dead code elimination
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:39:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+qSBu3YZH0JPY4I@spud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230213173906.214784-1-falcon@tinylab.org>


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On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 01:39:06AM +0800, Falcon wrote:
> Select CONFIG_HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for RISC-V, allowing
> the user to enable dead code elimination. In order for this to work,
> ensure that we keep the alternative table by annotating them with KEEP.
> 
> This boots well on qemu with both rv32_defconfig & rv64 defconfig, but
> it only shrinks their builds by ~1%, a smaller config is thereforce
> customized to test this feature:
> 
>           | rv32                   | rv64
>   --------|------------------------|---------------------
>    No DCE | 4460684                | 4893488
>       DCE | 3986716                | 4376400
>    Shrink |  473968 (~10.6%)       |  517088 (~10.5%)
> 
> The config used above only reserves necessary options to boot on qemu
> with serial console, more like the size-critical embedded scenes:
> 
>   - rv64 config: https://pastebin.com/crz82T0s
>   - rv32 config: rv64 config + 32-bit.config
> 
> Signed-off-by: Falcon <falcon@tinylab.org>

I feel like I "need" to ask - is Falcon your actual name?

Sorry,
Conor.

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-13 17:39 [PATCH] RISC-V: Enable dead code elimination Falcon
2023-02-13 19:39 ` Conor Dooley [this message]
2023-02-14  8:42   ` Wu Zhangjin

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