x86, setup: compile with -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 00:35:00 +0000 (17:35 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:34:45 +0000 (16:34 +0200)
Impact: code size reduction (possibly critical)

The x86 boot and decompression code has no use of the branch profiling
constructs, so disable them.  This would bloat the setup code by as
much as 14K, eating up a fairly large chunk of the 32K area we are
guaranteed to have.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/boot/Makefile
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

index fb737ce..6633b6e 100644 (file)
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ $(obj)/cpustr.h: $(obj)/mkcpustr FORCE
 # How to compile the 16-bit code.  Note we always compile for -march=i386,
 # that way we can complain to the user if the CPU is insufficient.
 KBUILD_CFLAGS  := $(LINUXINCLUDE) -g -Os -D_SETUP -D__KERNEL__ \
+                  -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING \
                   -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes \
                   -march=i386 -mregparm=3 \
                   -include $(srctree)/$(src)/code16gcc.h \
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(LINUXINCLUDE) -g -Os -D_SETUP -D__KERNEL__ \
                        $(call cc-option, -fno-unit-at-a-time)) \
                   $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector) \
                   $(call cc-option, -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS +=   $(call cc-option,-m32)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-option, -m32)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS  := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
 
 $(obj)/bzImage: asflags-y  := $(SVGA_MODE)
index 3ca4c19..65551c9 100644 (file)
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma h
 
 KBUILD_CFLAGS := -m$(BITS) -D__KERNEL__ $(LINUX_INCLUDE) -O2
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
 cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := -mcmodel=small
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cflags-y)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-ffreestanding)