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Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 13:36:55 -0800
From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, 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, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 04/16] 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 222ae96d179d..ac836907d8b1 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -899,6 +899,9 @@ 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
--
2.29.2.576.ga3fc446d84-goog
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