linux/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
Yuntao Liu ed0f941022 ARM: 9404/1: arm32: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
The current arm32 architecture does not yet support the
HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION feature. arm32 is widely used in
embedded scenarios, and enabling this feature would be beneficial for
reducing the size of the kernel image.

In order to make this work, we keep the necessary tables by annotating
them with KEEP, also it requires further changes to linker script to KEEP
some tables and wildcard compiler generated sections into the right place.
When using ld.lld for linking, KEEP is not recognized within the OVERLAY
command, and Ard proposed a concise method to solve this problem.

It boots normally with defconfig, vexpress_defconfig and tinyconfig.

The size comparison of zImage is as follows:
defconfig       vexpress_defconfig      tinyconfig
5137712         5138024                 424192          no dce
5032560         4997824                 298384          dce
2.0%            2.7%                    29.7%           shrink

When using smaller config file, there is a significant reduction in the
size of the zImage.

We also tested this patch on a commercially available single-board
computer, and the comparison is as follows:
a15eb_config
2161384         no dce
2092240         dce
3.2%            shrink

The zImage size has been reduced by approximately 3.2%, which is 70KB on
2.1M.

Signed-off-by: Yuntao Liu <liuyuntao12@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
2024-06-10 12:01:33 +01:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
/* ld script to make ARM Linux kernel
* taken from the i386 version by Russell King
* Written by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
#include "vmlinux-xip.lds.S"
#else
#include <linux/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/vmlinux.lds.h>
#include <asm/cache.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/mpu.h>
OUTPUT_ARCH(arm)
ENTRY(stext)
#ifndef __ARMEB__
jiffies = jiffies_64;
#else
jiffies = jiffies_64 + 4;
#endif
SECTIONS
{
/*
* XXX: The linker does not define how output sections are
* assigned to input sections when there are multiple statements
* matching the same input section name. There is no documented
* order of matching.
*
* unwind exit sections must be discarded before the rest of the
* unwind sections get included.
*/
/DISCARD/ : {
ARM_DISCARD
#ifndef CONFIG_SMP_ON_UP
*(.alt.smp.init)
#endif
#ifndef CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND
*(.ARM.exidx) *(.ARM.exidx.*)
*(.ARM.extab) *(.ARM.extab.*)
#endif
}
. = KERNEL_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET;
.head.text : {
_text = .;
HEAD_TEXT
}
#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
. = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_MPU
. = ALIGN(PMSAv8_MINALIGN);
#endif
.text : { /* Real text segment */
_stext = .; /* Text and read-only data */
ARM_TEXT
}
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA
. = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
#endif
_etext = .; /* End of text section */
RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
. = ALIGN(4);
__ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__start___ex_table = .;
ARM_MMU_KEEP(KEEP(*(__ex_table)))
__stop___ex_table = .;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND
ARM_UNWIND_SECTIONS
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
. = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
#else
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
#endif
__init_begin = .;
ARM_VECTORS
INIT_TEXT_SECTION(8)
.exit.text : {
ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_TEXT)
}
.init.proc.info : {
ARM_CPU_DISCARD(PROC_INFO)
}
.init.arch.info : {
__arch_info_begin = .;
KEEP(*(.arch.info.init))
__arch_info_end = .;
}
.init.tagtable : {
__tagtable_begin = .;
*(.taglist.init)
__tagtable_end = .;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP_ON_UP
.init.smpalt : {
__smpalt_begin = .;
*(.alt.smp.init)
__smpalt_end = .;
}
#endif
.init.pv_table : {
__pv_table_begin = .;
KEEP(*(.pv_table))
__pv_table_end = .;
}
INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
.exit.data : {
ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_DATA)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
PERCPU_SECTION(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TCM
ARM_TCM
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
. = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
#else
. = ALIGN(THREAD_ALIGN);
#endif
__init_end = .;
_sdata = .;
RW_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN)
_edata = .;
BSS_SECTION(0, 0, 0)
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_MPU
. = ALIGN(PMSAv8_MINALIGN);
#endif
_end = .;
STABS_DEBUG
DWARF_DEBUG
ARM_DETAILS
ARM_ASSERTS
}
#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
/*
* Without CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA, __start_rodata_section_aligned will
* be the first section-aligned location after __start_rodata. Otherwise,
* it will be equal to __start_rodata.
*/
__start_rodata_section_aligned = ALIGN(__start_rodata, 1 << SECTION_SHIFT);
#endif
/*
* These must never be empty
* If you have to comment these two assert statements out, your
* binutils is too old (for other reasons as well)
*/
ASSERT((__proc_info_end - __proc_info_begin), "missing CPU support")
#ifndef CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST
ASSERT((__arch_info_end - __arch_info_begin), "no machine record defined")
#endif
#endif /* CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL */