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Message-ID: <871ukl5soe.fsf_-_@xmission.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:56:17 -0700
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, hacklu <embedway.linux@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] x86 boot: Tell ld the kernel doesn't want 2MB file offset alignment.
By default ld uses 2MB pages and aligns our 3 program segments in the
file on 2MB boundaries, creating unnecessarily large uncompressed
vmlinux files.
Solve this by passing -z max-page-size 4096 to ld.
In my test x86_64 SMP test configuration with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
enabled, this reduces the size of vmlinux by roughly 5MB from 15141772
bytes to 10210188 bytes.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
arch/x86/Makefile | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 1f25214..b5b31c3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ avx_instr := $(call as-instr,vxorps %ymm0$(comma)%ymm1$(comma)%ymm2,-DCONFIG_AS_
KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr) $(avx_instr)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cfi) $(cfi-sigframe) $(cfi-sections) $(asinstr) $(avx_instr)
-LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)
+LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE) -z max-page-size=4096
# Speed up the build
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -pipe
--
1.7.5.4
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