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The objcopy only emits loadable sections when creating flat kernel Image. To have minimal possible size of flat kernel Image, we should have all non-loadable sections after loadable sections. Currently, execption table section (loadable section) is after BSS section (non-loadable section) in the RISC-V vmlinux.lds.S. This is not optimal for having minimal flat kernel Image size hence this patch makes BSS section as the last section in RISC-V vmlinux.lds.S. In addition, we make BSS section aligned to 16byte instead of PAGE aligned which further reduces flat kernel Image size by few KBs. The flat kernel Image size of Linux-4.20-rc4 using GCC 8.2.0 is 8819980 bytes with current RISC-V vmlinux.lds.S and it reduces to 7991740 bytes with this patch applied. In summary, this patch reduces Linux-4.20-rc4 flat kernel Image size by 809 KB. Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.