Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Make BSS section as the last section in vmlinux.lds.S

[Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 01:36:45 PST (-0800), anup@brainfault.org wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:42 AM Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> wrote:
>>
>> The objcopy only emits loadable sections when creating flat kernel
>> Image. To have minimal possible size of flat kernel Image, we should
>> have all non-loadable sections after loadable sections.
>>
>> Currently, execption table section (loadable section) is after BSS
>> section (non-loadable section) in the RISC-V vmlinux.lds.S. This
>> is not optimal for having minimal flat kernel Image size hence this
>> patch makes BSS section as the last section in RISC-V vmlinux.lds.S.
>>
>> In addition, we make BSS section aligned to 16byte instead of PAGE
>> aligned which further reduces flat kernel Image size by few KBs.
>>
>> The flat kernel Image size of Linux-4.20-rc4 using GCC 8.2.0 is
>> 8819980 bytes with current RISC-V vmlinux.lds.S and it reduces to
>> 7991740 bytes with this patch applied using GCC 8.2.0. In summary,
>> this patch reduces Linux-4.20-rc4 flat kernel Image size by 809 KB.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> index 65df1dfdc303..cc99eed44931 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> @@ -74,8 +74,6 @@ SECTIONS
>>                 *(.sbss*)
>>         }
>>
>> -       BSS_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, 0)
>> -
>>         EXCEPTION_TABLE(0x10)
>>         NOTES
>>
>> @@ -83,6 +81,8 @@ SECTIONS
>>                 *(.rel.dyn*)
>>         }
>>
>> +       BSS_SECTION(0x10, 0x10, 0x10)
>> +
>>         _end = .;
>>
>>         STABS_DEBUG
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Any comment on this patch?

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet.  Aside from the macro issue 
mentioned by Nick it seems OK.

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