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Date: Fri,  9 Oct 2020 09:13:21 -0700
From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, 
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, 
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, 
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 12/29] kbuild: lto: limit inlining

This change limits function inlining across translation unit boundaries
in order to reduce the binary size with LTO. The -import-instr-limit
flag defines a size limit, as the number of LLVM IR instructions, for
importing functions from other TUs, defaulting to 100.

Based on testing with arm64 defconfig, we found that a limit of 5 is a
reasonable compromise between performance and binary size, reducing the
size of a stripped vmlinux by 11%.

Suggested-by: George Burgess IV <gbiv@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 Makefile | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6d31a78d79ce..3fe2dca17261 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -894,6 +894,9 @@ else
 CC_FLAGS_LTO	+= -flto
 endif
 CC_FLAGS_LTO	+= -fvisibility=default
+
+# Limit inlining across translation units to reduce binary size
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -mllvm -import-instr-limit=5
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_LTO
-- 
2.28.0.1011.ga647a8990f-goog

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