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authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2019-05-14 15:42:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-14 19:52:48 -0700
commit9012d011660ea5cf2a623e1de207a2bc0ca6936d (patch)
treef8262000f8891b8587b5c7442a3bec172aa8dbc4 /lib
parentefc344c57e39754416731e24e1eadd7d9b9f335e (diff)
downloadlinux-9012d011660ea5cf2a623e1de207a2bc0ca6936d.tar.gz
compiler: allow all arches to enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING
Commit 60a3cdd06394 ("x86: add optimized inlining") introduced
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING, but it has been available only for x86.

The idea is obviously arch-agnostic.  This commit moves the config entry
from arch/x86/Kconfig.debug to lib/Kconfig.debug so that all
architectures can benefit from it.

This can make a huge difference in kernel image size especially when
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is enabled.

For example, I got 3.5% smaller arm64 kernel for v5.1-rc1.

  dec       file
  18983424  arch/arm64/boot/Image.before
  18321920  arch/arm64/boot/Image.after

This also slightly improves the "Kernel hacking" Kconfig menu as
e61aca5158a8 ("Merge branch 'kconfig-diet' from Dave Hansen') suggested;
this config option would be a good fit in the "compiler option" menu.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423034959.13525-12-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index d695ec1477f3..d5411a7484f6 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -318,6 +318,20 @@ config HEADERS_CHECK
 	  exported to $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH) (usually 'usr/include' in
 	  your build tree), to make sure they're suitable.
 
+config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
+	bool "Allow compiler to uninline functions marked 'inline'"
+	help
+	  This option determines if the kernel forces gcc to inline the functions
+	  developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to
+	  do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of
+	  compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and
+	  enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully
+	  this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the
+	  decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option
+	  is there to test gcc for this.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
 	bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
 	help