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authorSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>2020-12-11 10:46:21 -0800
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2021-01-14 08:21:08 -0800
commit22d429e75f24d114d99223389d6ba7047e952e32 (patch)
tree489a21731b2b0c690c0f5452e99c965d3097e266 /Makefile
parent38e89184900385b0dad1ee55c35ae8abcfee6ece (diff)
downloadlinux-22d429e75f24d114d99223389d6ba7047e952e32.tar.bz2
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@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-5-samitolvanen@google.com
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 173a7c9bd1fb..668909e7a460 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -901,6 +901,9 @@ else
CC_FLAGS_LTO += -flto
endif
CC_FLAGS_LTO += -fvisibility=hidden
+
+# Limit inlining across translation units to reduce binary size
+KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -mllvm -import-instr-limit=5
endif
ifdef CONFIG_LTO