From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 22:23:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8649964.jra1Y5q7Kz@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470399123-8455-1-git-send-email-npiggin@gmail.com>
On Friday, August 5, 2016 10:11:58 PM CEST Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have 3 different things in this patchset. All arch specific, but all
> involve kbuild changes, so I'd like to discuss them with kbuild
> maintainers. The goal has been to improve long standing linking
> difficulties with the powerpc kernel.
>
> * First, building kernel using thin archives rather than incremental
> linking. This seems quite clean and is per-arch, so I hope it should
> not be too controversial.
>
> * Second, building kernel using -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections,
> --gc-sections. Yes, I'm spinning the wheel again. It was motivated
> by tiny codesize regression in the first patch, but the results seem
> too good to ignore.
>
> * Third, allowing architecture to run a tool over module after it has
> been linked. Powerpc wants to use it in order to relocate "alternate
> code" instructions that get don't get linked at their runtime
> address. No idea if this is the right approach wrt kbuild, but it
> seems to work.
>
> I have included the powerpc code for the first two as a reference. The
> third is much bigger and mostly uninteresting for this cc list, but it
> can be found here:
>
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/651006/
>
> Comments appreciated.
>
>
I've started tested this a bit on ARM now. The first things I noticed
are:
1. /home/arnd/cross-gcc/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: drivers/xen/efi.o uses 2-byte wchar_t yet the output is to use 4-byte wchar_t; use of wchar_t values across objects may fail
(actually this one has been present since the first version that
stopped using recursive linking, I did 971a69db7dc0 ("Xen: don't
warn about 2-byte wchar_t in efi") when I first saw the bug, but
that fix no longer works and we have to do this differently
2. big-endian builds on ARM stopped working, I now get
22:53:02 CC init/do_mounts_md.o
22:53:02 LD init/mounts.o
/home/arnd/cross-gcc/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: init/do_mounts.o: compiled for a big endian system and target is little endian
/home/arnd/cross-gcc/bin/arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file init/do_mounts.o
The problem seems to be that we don't pass the correct linker
flags any more, it should be using --be8 from
arch/arm/Makefile:LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --be8
arch/arm/Makefile:LDFLAGS_MODULE += --be8
but that somehow is lost.
3. drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a: error adding symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
haven't investigated at all, turned off EFI for now.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-07 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-05 12:11 [RFC][PATCH 0/5] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 12:11 ` [PATCH 1/5] kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-06 3:50 ` kbuild test robot
2016-08-06 20:10 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-07 1:49 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-08-07 3:34 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-07 4:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-07 14:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:19 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 4:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:25 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 9:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: allow archs to select build for link dead code/data elimination Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-06 20:14 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:29 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 4:49 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-07 5:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-08 3:42 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-08 4:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-08-08 4:27 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-07 9:57 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-07 11:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-08-07 20:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-07 23:49 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-08 15:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-08 23:50 ` Alan Modra
2016-08-09 22:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-09 3:16 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-09 22:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-08-09 23:08 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-10 0:37 ` Andi Kleen
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] kbuild: add arch specific post-module-link pass Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 13:56 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-06 20:16 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-08-08 3:30 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: switch to using thin archives Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 12:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] powerpc/64: use linker dce Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-05 13:32 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/5] kbuild changes, thin archives, --gc-sections Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-07 20:23 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-08-08 3:53 ` Nicholas Piggin
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