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Message-Id: <201302151549.55440.arnd@arndb.de> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:49:55 +0000 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: "Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@....linux.org.uk> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arm@...nel.org, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>, Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...era.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>, Simon Horman <horms+renesas@...ge.net.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] [HACK] ARM: imx: work around v7_cpu_resume link error On Friday 15 February 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > The .text section alone is just short of 32MB. > > I suspect when it does go over that, we'll see a lot more link time > failures due to the 'bl' instructions failing to encode their PC relative > jumps. The only solution then will be to switch everything to use the > less efficient long jumps (load address from literal pool, bx) which'll > also need much of the asm changed. That also brings up the question > whether we want to penalize the kernel performance just to make > allyesconfig work... I guess we can make it a compile time option, which > of course allyesconfig will automatically enable. I suspect we'll see > a lot of people mistakenly enabling it too though. I'm not too worried about people accidentally enabling such a build option, at least if it's appropriately labeled as something that nobody should need. Changing the inline assembly however sounds like a big pain to do, which would cause performance and size overhead as well as regressions in rarely executed code when we get it wrong. I've tried rebulding the allyesconfig kernel with -O3 -funroll-all-loops to make it even bigger on purpose, and got these errors: arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x8): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x10): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x18): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x20): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x28): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x30): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x38): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x40): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x48): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x50): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_JUMP24 against `.text' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:(.fixup+0x58): additional relocation overflows omitted from the output so the .fixup section is completely out of reach of the start of the .text section. The size output for the partial link of vmlinux.o is section size addr .head.text 492 3221258240 .text 43889568 3221258752 .text.head 8 0 .rodata 11020608 4096 __bug_table 138636 11024704 .pci_fixup 0 11163340 .builtin_fw 684 11163340 .rio_ops 0 11164024 __ksymtab 53424 11164024 __ksymtab_gpl 43560 11217448 __ksymtab_unused 0 11261008 __ksymtab_unused_gpl 0 11261008 __ksymtab_gpl_future 0 11261008 __kcrctab 26712 11261008 __kcrctab_gpl 21780 11287720 __kcrctab_unused 0 11309500 __kcrctab_unused_gpl 0 11309500 __kcrctab_gpl_future 0 11309500 __ksymtab_strings 251888 11309500 __param 33104 11561388 __modver 1284 11594492 __ex_table 6288 11595776 .ARM.unwind_idx 907888 11602064 .ARM.unwind_tab 1362276 12509952 .notes 36 13872228 .init.text 685436 13873152 .exit.text 124324 14558588 .init.arch.info 5396 14682912 .init.tagtable 72 14688308 .init.smpalt 952 14688380 .init.pv_table 2232 14689332 .init.data 649164 14691568 .exit.data 120 15340732 .data..percpu 1460032 15343616 .data 3370676 16809984 .tcm_start 332 20180660 .text_itcm 0 4294836224 .dtcm_start 0 20180992 .data_dtcm 0 4294868992 .tcm_end 0 20180992 .bss 8007852 20180992 .comment 314424 0 .ARM.attributes 50 0 .debug_line 19185565 0 .debug_info 61757649 0 .debug_abbrev 5835457 0 .debug_aranges 299416 0 .debug_ranges 10482064 0 .debug_frame 4601768 0 .debug_str 37433732 0 .debug_loc 45578206 0 Total 257553155 I had the idea that turning off THUMB2 support in allyesconfig would help, but then I found that it's already disabled unlike what I claimed earlier, because ARMv6 support is enabled alongside ARMv7, so we are still screwed. Also, with the size of the kernel binary growing, it may just be a matter of time until this is not just a problem for artificial cases like allyesconfig, but also for something that users will actually want to run. IIRC, 10 years ago, half a megabyte seemed like a reasonable size for a kernel binary, while today 5 megabyte are not out of the ordinary on ARM. If the trend continues the same way, we might have users complaining about 32 megabyte kernels in 5-7 years from now, unless everybody is using 64-bit by then ;-) Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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