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v2 cover riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

When trying to run linux with various opensource riscv core on resource limited FPGA platforms, for example, those FPGAs with less than 16MB SDRAM, I want to save mem as much as possible. One of the major technologies is kernel size optimizations, I found that riscv does not currently support HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which passes -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections to CFLAGS and passes the --gc-sections flag to the linker.

This not only benefits my case on FPGA but also benefits defconfigs. Here are some notable improvements from enabling this with defconfigs:

nommu_k210_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

1112009  410288   59837 1582134  182436     before
 962838  376656   51285 1390779  1538bb     after

rv32_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

8804455 2816544  290577 11911576 b5c198     before
8692295 2779872  288977 11761144 b375f8     after

defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

9438267 3391332  485333 13314932 cb2b74     before
9285914 3350052  483349 13119315 c82f53     after

patch1 and patch2 are clean ups.
patch3 fixes a typo.
patch4 finally enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for riscv.

NOTE: Zhangjin Wu firstly sent out a patch to enable dead code elimination for riscv several months ago, I didn't notice it until yesterday. Although it missed some preparations and some sections's keeping, he is the first person to enable this feature for riscv. To ease merging, this series take his patch into my entire series and makes patch4 authored by him after getting his ack to reflect the above fact.

Since v1:
- collect Reviewed-by, Tested-by tag
- Make patch4 authored by Zhangjin Wu, add my co-developed-by tag

Jisheng Zhang (3):
riscv: move options to keep entries sorted
riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section vmlinux.lds.h: use correct .init.data.* section name

Zhangjin Wu (1):
riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

 arch/riscv/Kconfig                  |  13 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   6 -
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S     |   6 +-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h   |   2 +-
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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#1 lore raw

PATCH v2 1/4 riscv: move options to keep entries sorted

Recently, some commits break the entries order. Properly move their locations to keep entries sorted.

---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
arch/riscv/Kconfig +6 -6
index 348c0fa1fc8c..8f55aa4aae34 100644
@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ config RISCV
 	select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
 	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if MMU
+	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && (CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE || GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
+	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
+	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
+	select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
+	select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL && !PREEMPTION
 	select HAVE_EBPF_JIT if MMU
 	select HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
 	select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
@@ -110,7 +115,6 @@ config RISCV
 	select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
-	select HAVE_RETHOOK if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
 	select HAVE_PCI
@@ -119,6 +123,7 @@ config RISCV
 	select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
 	select HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
 	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
+	select HAVE_RETHOOK if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_RSEQ
 	select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
 	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
@@ -142,11 +147,6 @@ config RISCV
 	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
 	select UACCESS_MEMCPY if !MMU
 	select ZONE_DMA32 if 64BIT
-	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && (CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE || GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
-	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
-	select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
-	select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL && !PREEMPTION
 
 config CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	def_bool CC_IS_CLANG
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#2 lore raw

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] riscv: move options to keep entries sorted

Quoted 4 lines · Jisheng Zhang

Recently, some commits break the entries order. Properly move their locations to keep entries sorted.

Thanks,
Conor.

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#3 lore raw

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] riscv: move options to keep entries sorted

In reply to Jisheng Zhang
Quoted 3 lines · Jisheng Zhang

Recently, some commits break the entries order. Properly move their locations to keep entries sorted.

Quoted 53 lines
---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
arch/riscv/Kconfig +6 -7
index 348c0fa1fc8c..8f55aa4aae34 100644
@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ config RISCV
        select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER
        select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
        select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if MMU
+       select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && (CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE || GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
+       select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
+       select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
+       select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
+       select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL && !PREEMPTION
        select HAVE_EBPF_JIT if MMU
        select HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
        select HAVE_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION
@@ -110,7 +115,6 @@ config RISCV
        select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
        select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
        select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
-       select HAVE_RETHOOK if !XIP_KERNEL
        select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
        select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
        select HAVE_PCI
@@ -119,6 +123,7 @@ config RISCV
        select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
        select HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
        select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
+       select HAVE_RETHOOK if !XIP_KERNEL
        select HAVE_RSEQ
        select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
        select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
@@ -142,11 +147,6 @@ config RISCV
        select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
        select UACCESS_MEMCPY if !MMU
        select ZONE_DMA32 if 64BIT
-       select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && (CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE || GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
-       select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-       select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
-       select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
-       select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL && !PREEMPTION
 
 config CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
        def_bool CC_IS_CLANG
--

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PATCH v2 2/4 riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section

In reply to Jisheng Zhang

ALTERNATIVE mechanism can't work on XIP, and this is also reflected by below Kconfig dependency:

RISCV_ALTERNATIVE

	...
	depends on !XIP_KERNEL
	...

So there's no .alternative section at all for XIP case, remove it.

---
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   6 ------
 1 files changed, 6 deletions(-)
arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S +0 -6
index eab9edc3b631..50767647fbc6 100644
@@ -98,12 +98,6 @@ SECTIONS
 		__soc_builtin_dtb_table_end = .;
 	}
 
-	. = ALIGN(8);
-	.alternative : {
-		__alt_start = .;
-		*(.alternative)
-		__alt_end = .;
-	}
 	__init_end = .;
 
 	. = ALIGN(16);
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#5 lore raw

Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section

Quoted 37 lines · Jisheng Zhang

ALTERNATIVE mechanism can't work on XIP, and this is also reflected by below Kconfig dependency:

RISCV_ALTERNATIVE

        ...
        depends on !XIP_KERNEL
        ...

So there's no .alternative section at all for XIP case, remove it.

---
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   6 ------
 1 files changed, 6 deletions(-)
arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S +0 -7
index eab9edc3b631..50767647fbc6 100644
@@ -98,12 +98,6 @@ SECTIONS
                __soc_builtin_dtb_table_end = .;
        }
 
-       . = ALIGN(8);
-       .alternative : {
-               __alt_start = .;
-               *(.alternative)
-               __alt_end = .;
-       }
        __init_end = .;
 
        . = ALIGN(16);
--

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Best Regards
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#6 lore raw

PATCH v2 3/4 vmlinux.lds.h: use correct .init.data.* section name

In reply to Jisheng Zhang

If building with -fdata-sections on riscv, LD_ORPHAN_WARN will warn similar as below:

riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section .init.data.efi_loglevel' from ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/printk.stub.o' being placed in section `.init.data.efi_loglevel'

I believe this is caused by a a typo:
init.data.* should be .init.data.*

---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +1 -1
index d1f57e4868ed..371026ca7221 100644
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@
 /* init and exit section handling */
 #define INIT_DATA							\
 	KEEP(*(SORT(___kentry+*)))					\
-	*(.init.data init.data.*)					\
+	*(.init.data .init.data.*)					\
 	MEM_DISCARD(init.data*)						\
 	KERNEL_CTORS()							\
 	MCOUNT_REC()							\
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Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] vmlinux.lds.h: use correct .init.data.* section name

Quoted 9 lines · Jisheng Zhang

If building with -fdata-sections on riscv, LD_ORPHAN_WARN will warn similar as below:

riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: orphan section .init.data.efi_loglevel' from ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/printk.stub.o' being placed in section `.init.data.efi_loglevel'

I believe this is caused by a a typo:
init.data.* should be .init.data.*

Fixes tag?

266ff2a8f51f kbuild: Fix asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h for LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

Quoted 19 lines
---
  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +1 -1
index d1f57e4868ed..371026ca7221 100644
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@
  /* init and exit section handling */
  #define INIT_DATA							\
  	KEEP(*(SORT(___kentry+*)))					\
-	*(.init.data init.data.*)					\
+	*(.init.data .init.data.*)					\
  	MEM_DISCARD(init.data*)						\
  	KERNEL_CTORS()							\
  	MCOUNT_REC()							\
#8 lore raw

PATCH v2 4/4 riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

In reply to Jisheng Zhang

From: Zhangjin Wu <[email protected]>

Select CONFIG_HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for RISC-V, allowing the user to enable dead code elimination. In order for this to work, ensure that we keep the alternative table by annotating them with KEEP.

This boots well on qemu with both rv32_defconfig & rv64 defconfig, but it only shrinks their builds by ~1%, a smaller config is thereforce customized to test this feature:

          | rv32                   | rv64
  --------|------------------------|---------------------
   No DCE | 4460684                | 4893488
      DCE | 3986716                | 4376400
   Shrink |  473968 (~10.6%)       |  517088 (~10.5%)

The config used above only reserves necessary options to boot on qemu with serial console, more like the size-critical embedded scenes:

- rv64 config: https://pastebin.com/crz82T0s
- rv32 config: rv64 config + 32-bit.config

Here is Jisheng's original commit-msg:
When trying to run linux with various opensource riscv core on resource limited FPGA platforms, for example, those FPGAs with less than 16MB SDRAM, I want to save mem as much as possible. One of the major technologies is kernel size optimizations, I found that riscv does not currently support HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which passes -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections to CFLAGS and passes the --gc-sections flag to the linker.

This not only benefits my case on FPGA but also benefits defconfigs. Here are some notable improvements from enabling this with defconfigs:

nommu_k210_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

1112009  410288   59837 1582134  182436     before
 962838  376656   51285 1390779  1538bb     after

rv32_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

8804455 2816544  290577 11911576 b5c198     before
8692295 2779872  288977 11761144 b375f8     after

defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

9438267 3391332  485333 13314932 cb2b74     before
9285914 3350052  483349 13119315 c82f53     after
---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig              | 1 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
arch/riscv/Kconfig +1 -0
index 8f55aa4aae34..62e84fee2cfd 100644
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ config RISCV
 	select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
+	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
 	select HAVE_PCI
arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +3 -3
index e5f9f4677bbf..492dd4b8f3d6 100644
@@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ SECTIONS
 	INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
 
 	.init.pi : {
-		*(.init.pi*)
+		KEEP(*(.init.pi*))
 	}
 
 	.init.bss : {
-		*(.init.bss)	/* from the EFI stub */
+		KEEP(*(.init.bss*))	/* from the EFI stub */
 	}
 	.exit.data :
 	{
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	. = ALIGN(8);
 	.alternative : {
 		__alt_start = .;
-		*(.alternative)
+		KEEP(*(.alternative))
 		__alt_end = .;
 	}
 	__init_end = .;
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Quoted 46 lines · Jisheng Zhang

From: Zhangjin Wu <[email protected]>

Select CONFIG_HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for RISC-V, allowing the user to enable dead code elimination. In order for this to work, ensure that we keep the alternative table by annotating them with KEEP.

This boots well on qemu with both rv32_defconfig & rv64 defconfig, but it only shrinks their builds by ~1%, a smaller config is thereforce customized to test this feature:

           | rv32                   | rv64
   --------|------------------------|---------------------
    No DCE | 4460684                | 4893488
       DCE | 3986716                | 4376400
    Shrink |  473968 (~10.6%)       |  517088 (~10.5%)

The config used above only reserves necessary options to boot on qemu with serial console, more like the size-critical embedded scenes:

- rv64 config: https://pastebin.com/crz82T0s
- rv32 config: rv64 config + 32-bit.config

Here is Jisheng's original commit-msg:
When trying to run linux with various opensource riscv core on resource limited FPGA platforms, for example, those FPGAs with less than 16MB SDRAM, I want to save mem as much as possible. One of the major technologies is kernel size optimizations, I found that riscv does not currently support HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which passes -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections to CFLAGS and passes the --gc-sections flag to the linker.

This not only benefits my case on FPGA but also benefits defconfigs. Here are some notable improvements from enabling this with defconfigs:

nommu_k210_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex
1112009 410288 59837 1582134 182436 before
962838 376656 51285 1390779 1538bb after

rv32_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

8804455 2816544  290577 11911576 b5c198     before
8692295 2779872  288977 11761144 b375f8     after

defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

Quoted 8 lines
9438267 3391332  485333 13314932 cb2b74     before
9285914 3350052  483349 13119315 c82f53     after
Quoted 36 lines
---
  arch/riscv/Kconfig              | 1 +
  arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 +++---
  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
arch/riscv/Kconfig +1 -0
index 8f55aa4aae34..62e84fee2cfd 100644
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ config RISCV
  	select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
  	select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
  	select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
+	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
  	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
  	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
  	select HAVE_PCI
arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +2 -2
index e5f9f4677bbf..492dd4b8f3d6 100644
@@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ SECTIONS
  	INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
 
  	.init.pi : {
-		*(.init.pi*)
+		KEEP(*(.init.pi*))
  	}
 
  	.init.bss : {
-		*(.init.bss)	/* from the EFI stub */
+		KEEP(*(.init.bss*))	/* from the EFI stub */
  	}
  	.exit.data :
  	{

arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S SECTIONS · line 118

Quoted 8 lines
arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +1 -1
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ SECTIONS
  	. = ALIGN(8);
  	.alternative : {
  		__alt_start = .;
-		*(.alternative)
+		KEEP(*(.alternative))
  		__alt_end = .;
  	}
  	__init_end = .;

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#10 lore raw
In reply to Jisheng Zhang
Quoted 47 lines · On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

When trying to run linux with various opensource riscv core on resource limited FPGA platforms, for example, those FPGAs with less than 16MB SDRAM, I want to save mem as much as possible. One of the major technologies is kernel size optimizations, I found that riscv does not currently support HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which passes -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections to CFLAGS and passes the --gc-sections flag to the linker.

This not only benefits my case on FPGA but also benefits defconfigs. Here are some notable improvements from enabling this with defconfigs:

nommu_k210_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

1112009  410288   59837 1582134  182436     before
 962838  376656   51285 1390779  1538bb     after

rv32_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

8804455 2816544  290577 11911576 b5c198     before
8692295 2779872  288977 11761144 b375f8     after

defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

9438267 3391332  485333 13314932 cb2b74     before
9285914 3350052  483349 13119315 c82f53     after

patch1 and patch2 are clean ups.
patch3 fixes a typo.
patch4 finally enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for riscv.

NOTE: Zhangjin Wu firstly sent out a patch to enable dead code elimination for riscv several months ago, I didn't notice it until yesterday. Although it missed some preparations and some sections's keeping, he is the first person to enable this feature for riscv. To ease merging, this series take his patch into my entire series and makes patch4 authored by him after getting his ack to reflect the above fact.

Since v1:
- collect Reviewed-by, Tested-by tag
- Make patch4 authored by Zhangjin Wu, add my co-developed-by tag

Jisheng Zhang (3):
riscv: move options to keep entries sorted
riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section vmlinux.lds.h: use correct .init.data.* section name

Quoted 8 lines

Zhangjin Wu (1):
riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

 arch/riscv/Kconfig                  |  13 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   6 -
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S     |   6 +-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h   |   2 +-
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Do you have a base commit for this? It's not applying to 6.4-rc1 and the patchwork bot couldn't find one either.

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Quoted 51 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 50 lines · On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

When trying to run linux with various opensource riscv core on resource limited FPGA platforms, for example, those FPGAs with less than 16MB SDRAM, I want to save mem as much as possible. One of the major technologies is kernel size optimizations, I found that riscv does not currently support HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which passes -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections to CFLAGS and passes the --gc-sections flag to the linker.

This not only benefits my case on FPGA but also benefits defconfigs. Here are some notable improvements from enabling this with defconfigs:

nommu_k210_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

1112009  410288   59837 1582134  182436     before
 962838  376656   51285 1390779  1538bb     after

rv32_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

8804455 2816544  290577 11911576 b5c198     before
8692295 2779872  288977 11761144 b375f8     after

defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

9438267 3391332  485333 13314932 cb2b74     before
9285914 3350052  483349 13119315 c82f53     after

patch1 and patch2 are clean ups.
patch3 fixes a typo.
patch4 finally enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for riscv.

NOTE: Zhangjin Wu firstly sent out a patch to enable dead code elimination for riscv several months ago, I didn't notice it until yesterday. Although it missed some preparations and some sections's keeping, he is the first person to enable this feature for riscv. To ease merging, this series take his patch into my entire series and makes patch4 authored by him after getting his ack to reflect the above fact.

Since v1:
- collect Reviewed-by, Tested-by tag
- Make patch4 authored by Zhangjin Wu, add my co-developed-by tag

Jisheng Zhang (3):
riscv: move options to keep entries sorted
riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section vmlinux.lds.h: use correct .init.data.* section name

Zhangjin Wu (1):
riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

Quoted 8 lines
Quoted 5 lines
 arch/riscv/Kconfig                  |  13 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   6 -
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S     |   6 +-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h   |   2 +-
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Do you have a base commit for this? It's not applying to 6.4-rc1 and the patchwork bot couldn't find one either.

Hi Palmer,

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks

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#12 lore raw
Quoted 59 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 57 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 55 lines · On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

When trying to run linux with various opensource riscv core on resource limited FPGA platforms, for example, those FPGAs with less than 16MB SDRAM, I want to save mem as much as possible. One of the major technologies is kernel size optimizations, I found that riscv does not currently support HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which passes -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections to CFLAGS and passes the --gc-sections flag to the linker.

This not only benefits my case on FPGA but also benefits defconfigs. Here are some notable improvements from enabling this with defconfigs:

nommu_k210_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

1112009  410288   59837 1582134  182436     before
 962838  376656   51285 1390779  1538bb     after

rv32_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

8804455 2816544  290577 11911576 b5c198     before
8692295 2779872  288977 11761144 b375f8     after

defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

9438267 3391332  485333 13314932 cb2b74     before
9285914 3350052  483349 13119315 c82f53     after

patch1 and patch2 are clean ups.
patch3 fixes a typo.
patch4 finally enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for riscv.

NOTE: Zhangjin Wu firstly sent out a patch to enable dead code elimination for riscv several months ago, I didn't notice it until yesterday. Although it missed some preparations and some sections's keeping, he is the first person to enable this feature for riscv. To ease merging, this series take his patch into my entire series and makes patch4 authored by him after getting his ack to reflect the above fact.

Since v1:
- collect Reviewed-by, Tested-by tag
- Make patch4 authored by Zhangjin Wu, add my co-developed-by tag

Jisheng Zhang (3):
riscv: move options to keep entries sorted
riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section vmlinux.lds.h: use correct .init.data.* section name

Zhangjin Wu (1):
riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

 arch/riscv/Kconfig                  |  13 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   6 -
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S     |   6 +-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h   |   2 +-
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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Do you have a base commit for this? It's not applying to 6.4-rc1 and the patchwork bot couldn't find one either.

Hi Palmer,

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

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Thanks

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#13 lore raw
Quoted 63 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 62 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 59 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 47 lines · On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

When trying to run linux with various opensource riscv core on resource limited FPGA platforms, for example, those FPGAs with less than 16MB SDRAM, I want to save mem as much as possible. One of the major technologies is kernel size optimizations, I found that riscv does not currently support HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which passes -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections to CFLAGS and passes the --gc-sections flag to the linker.

This not only benefits my case on FPGA but also benefits defconfigs. Here are some notable improvements from enabling this with defconfigs:

nommu_k210_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

1112009  410288   59837 1582134  182436     before
 962838  376656   51285 1390779  1538bb     after

rv32_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

8804455 2816544  290577 11911576 b5c198     before
8692295 2779872  288977 11761144 b375f8     after

defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

9438267 3391332  485333 13314932 cb2b74     before
9285914 3350052  483349 13119315 c82f53     after

patch1 and patch2 are clean ups.
patch3 fixes a typo.
patch4 finally enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for riscv.

NOTE: Zhangjin Wu firstly sent out a patch to enable dead code elimination for riscv several months ago, I didn't notice it until yesterday. Although it missed some preparations and some sections's keeping, he is the first person to enable this feature for riscv. To ease merging, this series take his patch into my entire series and makes patch4 authored by him after getting his ack to reflect the above fact.

Since v1:
- collect Reviewed-by, Tested-by tag
- Make patch4 authored by Zhangjin Wu, add my co-developed-by tag

Jisheng Zhang (3):
riscv: move options to keep entries sorted
riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section vmlinux.lds.h: use correct .init.data.* section name

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Zhangjin Wu (1):
riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

 arch/riscv/Kconfig                  |  13 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   6 -
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S     |   6 +-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h   |   2 +-
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Do you have a base commit for this? It's not applying to 6.4-rc1 and the patchwork bot couldn't find one either.

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Hi Palmer,

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

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#14 lore raw
Quoted 71 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 69 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 67 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 51 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 50 lines · On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

When trying to run linux with various opensource riscv core on resource limited FPGA platforms, for example, those FPGAs with less than 16MB SDRAM, I want to save mem as much as possible. One of the major technologies is kernel size optimizations, I found that riscv does not currently support HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, which passes -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections to CFLAGS and passes the --gc-sections flag to the linker.

This not only benefits my case on FPGA but also benefits defconfigs. Here are some notable improvements from enabling this with defconfigs:

nommu_k210_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

1112009  410288   59837 1582134  182436     before
 962838  376656   51285 1390779  1538bb     after

rv32_defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

8804455 2816544  290577 11911576 b5c198     before
8692295 2779872  288977 11761144 b375f8     after

defconfig:
text data bss dec hex

9438267 3391332  485333 13314932 cb2b74     before
9285914 3350052  483349 13119315 c82f53     after

patch1 and patch2 are clean ups.
patch3 fixes a typo.
patch4 finally enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for riscv.

NOTE: Zhangjin Wu firstly sent out a patch to enable dead code elimination for riscv several months ago, I didn't notice it until yesterday. Although it missed some preparations and some sections's keeping, he is the first person to enable this feature for riscv. To ease merging, this series take his patch into my entire series and makes patch4 authored by him after getting his ack to reflect the above fact.

Since v1:
- collect Reviewed-by, Tested-by tag
- Make patch4 authored by Zhangjin Wu, add my co-developed-by tag

Jisheng Zhang (3):
riscv: move options to keep entries sorted
riscv: vmlinux-xip.lds.S: remove .alternative section vmlinux.lds.h: use correct .init.data.* section name

Zhangjin Wu (1):
riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

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 arch/riscv/Kconfig                  |  13 +-
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux-xip.lds.S |   6 -
 arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S     |   6 +-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h   |   2 +-
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Do you have a base commit for this? It's not applying to 6.4-rc1 and the patchwork bot couldn't find one either.

Hi Palmer,

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

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Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

I was able to dump a backtrace of all of LLD's threads and all threads seemed parked in a futex wait except for one thread with a more interesting trace.

0x0000555557ea01ce in lld::elf::LinkerScript::addOrphanSections()::$_0::operator()(lld::elf::InputSectionBase*) const ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000555557ea01ce in lld::elf::LinkerScript::addOrphanSections()::$_0::operator()(lld::elf::InputSectionBase*) const ()
#1 0x0000555557e9fc3f in lld::elf::LinkerScript::addOrphanSections() ()
#2 0x0000555557dd0ca1 in lld::elf::LinkerDriver::link(llvm::opt::InputArgList&) ()
#3 0x0000555557dc19a8 in lld::elf::LinkerDriver::linkerMain(llvm::ArrayRef<char const*>) ()
#4 0x0000555557dbfff9 in lld::elf::link(llvm::ArrayRef<char const*>, llvm::raw_ostream&, llvm::raw_ostream&, bool, bool) ()
#5 0x0000555557c3ffcf in lldMain(int, char const**,
llvm::raw_ostream&, llvm::raw_ostream&, bool) ()
#6 0x0000555557c3f7aa in lld_main(int, char**, llvm::ToolContext const&) () #7 0x0000555557c41ee1 in main ()

Makes me wonder if there's some kind of loop adding orphan sections that aren't referenced, so they're cleaned up.

Though I don't think it's a hang; IIRC dead code elimination adds a measurable amount of time to the build. As code is unreferenced and removed, I think the linker is reshuffling layout and thus recomputing relocations.

Though triple checking mainline without this patch vs mainline with this patch, twice now I just got an error from LLD (in 2 minutes on my system):

ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(efi-stub-entry.stub.o):(.init.bss.screen_info_offset) is being placed in '.init.bss.screen_info_offset'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(efi-stub-helper.stub.o):(.init.data.efi_nokaslr) is being placed in '.init.data.efi_nokaslr'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(efi-stub-helper.stub.o):(.init.bss.efi_noinitrd) is being placed in '.init.bss.efi_noinitrd'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(efi-stub-helper.stub.o):(.init.bss.efi_nochunk) is being placed in '.init.bss.efi_nochunk'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(efi-stub-helper.stub.o):(.init.bss.efi_novamap) is being placed in '.init.bss.efi_novamap'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(efi-stub-helper.stub.o):(.init.bss.efi_disable_pci_dma) is being placed in '.init.bss.efi_disable_pci_dma'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(file.stub.o):(.init.bss.efi_open_device_path.text_to_dp) is being placed in '.init.bss.efi_open_device_path.text_to_dp'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(gop.stub.o):(.init.bss.cmdline.0)
is being placed in '.init.bss.cmdline.0'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(gop.stub.o):(.init.bss.cmdline.1)
is being placed in '.init.bss.cmdline.1'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(gop.stub.o):(.init.bss.cmdline.2)
is being placed in '.init.bss.cmdline.2'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(gop.stub.o):(.init.bss.cmdline.3)
is being placed in '.init.bss.cmdline.3'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(gop.stub.o):(.init.bss.cmdline.4)
is being placed in '.init.bss.cmdline.4'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(printk.stub.o):(.init.data.efi_loglevel) is being placed in '.init.data.efi_loglevel'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(riscv.stub.o):(.init.bss.hartid)
is being placed in '.init.bss.hartid'
ld.lld: error: ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(systable.stub.o):(.init.bss.efi_system_table) is being placed in '.init.bss.efi_system_table'

is it perhaps that these sections need placement in the linker script?
This is from the orphan section warn linker command line flag.

Does the EFI stub have one linker script, or one per arch? (Or am I mistaken and the EFI stub is part of vmlinux)?

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#15 lore raw
Quoted 10 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 9 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 8 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 6 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Palmer Dabbelt

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

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Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).

Cheers,
Conor.

#16 lore raw
Quoted 18 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 16 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 14 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 9 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 6 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Palmer Dabbelt

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

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Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).

Ah! I've been testing the deprecated patch set, sorry I just looked on lore for "dead code" on riscv-linux and grabbed the first thread, without noticing the difference in authors or new version numbers for distinct series. ok, nevermind my noise. I'll follow up with the correct patch set, sorry!

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Cheers,
Conor.

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#17 lore raw
Quoted 26 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:32:32 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 18 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 16 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 14 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 9 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 6 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Palmer Dabbelt

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

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Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).

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Ah! I've been testing the deprecated patch set, sorry I just looked on lore for "dead code" on riscv-linux and grabbed the first thread, without noticing the difference in authors or new version numbers for distinct series. ok, nevermind my noise. I'll follow up with the correct patch set, sorry!

Ya, I hadn't even noticed the v3 because I pretty much only look at patchwork these days. Like we talked about in IRC, I'm going to go test the merge of this one and see what's up -- I've got it staged at <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=1bd2963b21758a773206a1cb67c93e7a8ae8a195>, though that won't be a stable hash if it's actually broken...

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Cheers,
Conor.

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#18 lore raw
Quoted 34 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 26 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:32:32 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 18 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 16 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 14 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 9 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 6 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Palmer Dabbelt

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

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Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).

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Ah! I've been testing the deprecated patch set, sorry I just looked on lore for "dead code" on riscv-linux and grabbed the first thread, without noticing the difference in authors or new version numbers for distinct series. ok, nevermind my noise. I'll follow up with the correct patch set, sorry!

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Ya, I hadn't even noticed the v3 because I pretty much only look at patchwork these days. Like we talked about in IRC, I'm going to go test the merge of this one and see what's up -- I've got it staged at
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=1bd2963b21758a773206a1cb67c93e7a8ae8a195>,
though that won't be a stable hash if it's actually broken...

Ok, https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/
built for me. If you're seeing a hang, please let me know what version of LLD you're using and I'll build that tag from source to see if I can reproduce, then bisect if so.

$ ARCH=riscv LLVM=1 /usr/bin/time -v make -j128 allmodconfig vmlinux
...
        Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 2:35.68
...
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Conor.

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#19 lore raw
Quoted 46 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:47:07 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 34 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 26 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:32:32 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 18 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 16 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 14 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 9 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 6 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Palmer Dabbelt

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

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Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).

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Ah! I've been testing the deprecated patch set, sorry I just looked on lore for "dead code" on riscv-linux and grabbed the first thread, without noticing the difference in authors or new version numbers for distinct series. ok, nevermind my noise. I'll follow up with the correct patch set, sorry!

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Ya, I hadn't even noticed the v3 because I pretty much only look at patchwork these days. Like we talked about in IRC, I'm going to go test the merge of this one and see what's up -- I've got it staged at
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=1bd2963b21758a773206a1cb67c93e7a8ae8a195>,
though that won't be a stable hash if it's actually broken...

Ok, https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/
built for me. If you're seeing a hang, please let me know what version of LLD you're using and I'll build that tag from source to see if I can reproduce, then bisect if so.

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$ ARCH=riscv LLVM=1 /usr/bin/time -v make -j128 allmodconfig vmlinux
...
        Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 2:35.68
...

OK, it triggered enough of a rebuild that it might take a bit for anything to filter out.

Thanks!

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Conor.

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#20 lore raw
Quoted 52 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 51 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:47:07 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 34 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 26 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:32:32 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 18 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 16 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 14 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 9 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 6 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Palmer Dabbelt

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

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Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).

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Ah! I've been testing the deprecated patch set, sorry I just looked on lore for "dead code" on riscv-linux and grabbed the first thread, without noticing the difference in authors or new version numbers for distinct series. ok, nevermind my noise. I'll follow up with the correct patch set, sorry!

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Ya, I hadn't even noticed the v3 because I pretty much only look at patchwork these days. Like we talked about in IRC, I'm going to go test the merge of this one and see what's up -- I've got it staged at
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=1bd2963b21758a773206a1cb67c93e7a8ae8a195>,
though that won't be a stable hash if it's actually broken...

Ok, https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/
built for me. If you're seeing a hang, please let me know what version of LLD you're using and I'll build that tag from source to see if I can reproduce, then bisect if so.

$ ARCH=riscv LLVM=1 /usr/bin/time -v make -j128 allmodconfig vmlinux
...
        Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 2:35.68
...
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OK, it triggered enough of a rebuild that it might take a bit for anything to filter out.

I'm on LLVM 16.0.2

    $ git describe
    llvmorg-16.0.2
    $ git log | head -n1
    commit 18ddebe1a1a9bde349441631365f0472e9693520

that seems to hang for me -- or at least run for an hour without completing, so I assume it's hung. I'm not wed to 16.0.2, it just happens to be the last time I bumped the toolchain. I'm moving to 16.0.5 to see if that changes anything.

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Thanks!

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Cheers,
Conor.

--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

maintainer
#21 lore raw
Quoted 65 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 52 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 51 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:47:07 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 34 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 26 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:32:32 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 18 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 16 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 14 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 9 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 6 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Palmer Dabbelt

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

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Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).

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Ah! I've been testing the deprecated patch set, sorry I just looked on lore for "dead code" on riscv-linux and grabbed the first thread, without noticing the difference in authors or new version numbers for distinct series. ok, nevermind my noise. I'll follow up with the correct patch set, sorry!

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Ya, I hadn't even noticed the v3 because I pretty much only look at patchwork these days. Like we talked about in IRC, I'm going to go test the merge of this one and see what's up -- I've got it staged at
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=1bd2963b21758a773206a1cb67c93e7a8ae8a195>,
though that won't be a stable hash if it's actually broken...

Ok, https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/
built for me. If you're seeing a hang, please let me know what version of LLD you're using and I'll build that tag from source to see if I can reproduce, then bisect if so.

$ ARCH=riscv LLVM=1 /usr/bin/time -v make -j128 allmodconfig vmlinux
...
        Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 2:35.68
...
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OK, it triggered enough of a rebuild that it might take a bit for anything to filter out.

I'm on LLVM 16.0.2

    $ git describe
    llvmorg-16.0.2
    $ git log | head -n1
    commit 18ddebe1a1a9bde349441631365f0472e9693520
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that seems to hang for me -- or at least run for an hour without completing, so I assume it's hung. I'm not wed to 16.0.2, it just happens to be the last time I bumped the toolchain. I'm moving to 16.0.5 to see if that changes anything.

That also takes at least an hour to link. I tried running on LLVM trunk from last night

    $ git log | head -n1
    commit 5e9173c43a9b97c8614e36d6f754317f731e71e9

and that completed. Just as a curiosity I tried to re-spin it to see how long it takes, and it's been running for 23 minutes so far.

So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

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Thanks!

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Cheers,
Conor.

--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

#22 lore raw
Quoted 71 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 65 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 52 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 51 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:47:07 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 34 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 26 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:32:32 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 18 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 16 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 14 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 9 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 6 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Palmer Dabbelt

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

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Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).

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Ah! I've been testing the deprecated patch set, sorry I just looked on lore for "dead code" on riscv-linux and grabbed the first thread, without noticing the difference in authors or new version numbers for distinct series. ok, nevermind my noise. I'll follow up with the correct patch set, sorry!

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Ya, I hadn't even noticed the v3 because I pretty much only look at patchwork these days. Like we talked about in IRC, I'm going to go test the merge of this one and see what's up -- I've got it staged at
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=1bd2963b21758a773206a1cb67c93e7a8ae8a195>,
though that won't be a stable hash if it's actually broken...

Ok, https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/
built for me. If you're seeing a hang, please let me know what version of LLD you're using and I'll build that tag from source to see if I can reproduce, then bisect if so.

$ ARCH=riscv LLVM=1 /usr/bin/time -v make -j128 allmodconfig vmlinux
...
        Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 2:35.68
...
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OK, it triggered enough of a rebuild that it might take a bit for anything to filter out.

I'm on LLVM 16.0.2

    $ git describe
    llvmorg-16.0.2
    $ git log | head -n1
    commit 18ddebe1a1a9bde349441631365f0472e9693520
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that seems to hang for me -- or at least run for an hour without completing, so I assume it's hung. I'm not wed to 16.0.2, it just happens to be the last time I bumped the toolchain. I'm moving to 16.0.5 to see if that changes anything.

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That also takes at least an hour to link. I tried running on LLVM trunk from last night

    $ git log | head -n1
    commit 5e9173c43a9b97c8614e36d6f754317f731e71e9

and that completed. Just as a curiosity I tried to re-spin it to see how long it takes, and it's been running for 23 minutes so far.

After some misdirection through stupid user error, I have also reproduced this for an LLVM=1 build w/ llvmorg-16.0.0

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

Cheers,
Conor.

#23 lore raw
Quoted 89 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 71 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 65 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 52 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 51 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:47:07 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 34 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 26 lines · On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:32:32 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 18 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 16 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 14 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 9 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 6 lines · On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:25:49 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Palmer Dabbelt

On Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:58 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Commit 3b90b09af5be ("riscv: Fix orphan section warnings caused by kernel/pi") touches vmlinux.lds.S, so to make the merge easy, this series is based on 6.4-rc2.

Thanks.

Sorry to be so slow here, but I think this is causing LLD to hang on allmodconfig. I'm still getting to the bottom of it, there's a few other things I have in flight still.

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Confirmed with v3 on mainline (linux-next is pretty red at the moment).
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/

Just FYI Nick, there's been some concurrent work here from different people working on the same thing & the v3 you linked (from Zhangjin) was superseded by this v2 (from Jisheng).

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Ah! I've been testing the deprecated patch set, sorry I just looked on lore for "dead code" on riscv-linux and grabbed the first thread, without noticing the difference in authors or new version numbers for distinct series. ok, nevermind my noise. I'll follow up with the correct patch set, sorry!

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Ya, I hadn't even noticed the v3 because I pretty much only look at patchwork these days. Like we talked about in IRC, I'm going to go test the merge of this one and see what's up -- I've got it staged at
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=1bd2963b21758a773206a1cb67c93e7a8ae8a195>,
though that won't be a stable hash if it's actually broken...

Ok, https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected]/
built for me. If you're seeing a hang, please let me know what version of LLD you're using and I'll build that tag from source to see if I can reproduce, then bisect if so.

$ ARCH=riscv LLVM=1 /usr/bin/time -v make -j128 allmodconfig vmlinux
...
        Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 2:35.68
...
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OK, it triggered enough of a rebuild that it might take a bit for anything to filter out.

I'm on LLVM 16.0.2

    $ git describe
    llvmorg-16.0.2
    $ git log | head -n1
    commit 18ddebe1a1a9bde349441631365f0472e9693520
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that seems to hang for me -- or at least run for an hour without completing, so I assume it's hung. I'm not wed to 16.0.2, it just happens to be the last time I bumped the toolchain. I'm moving to 16.0.5 to see if that changes anything.

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That also takes at least an hour to link. I tried running on LLVM trunk from last night

    $ git log | head -n1
    commit 5e9173c43a9b97c8614e36d6f754317f731e71e9

and that completed. Just as a curiosity I tried to re-spin it to see how long it takes, and it's been running for 23 minutes so far.

After some misdirection through stupid user error, I have also reproduced this for an LLVM=1 build w/ llvmorg-16.0.0

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

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I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

Probably as expected, swapping out LLD for LD linked normally & using gcc-13.1 + LLD hit the same problems with linking.

Cheers,
Conor.

#24 lore raw
In reply to Conor Dooley

Conor Dooley <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

I took palmer/for-next (1bd2963b2175 ("Merge patch series "riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"")) for a tuxmake build with llvm-16:

  | ~/src/tuxmake/run -v --wrapper ccache --target-arch riscv \
  |     --toolchain=llvm-16 --runtime docker --directory . -k \
  |     allyesconfig

Took forever, but passed after 2.5h.

CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="Debian clang version 16.0.6 (++20230610113307+7cbf1a259152-1~exp1~20230610233402.106)"

Björn

maintainer
#25 lore raw
Quoted 13 lines · On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:51:15 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Conor Dooley <[email protected]> writes:

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

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I took palmer/for-next (1bd2963b2175 ("Merge patch series "riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"")) for a tuxmake build with llvm-16:

  | ~/src/tuxmake/run -v --wrapper ccache --target-arch riscv \
  |     --toolchain=llvm-16 --runtime docker --directory . -k \
  |     allyesconfig

Took forever, but passed after 2.5h.

Thanks. I just re-ran mine 17/trunk LLD under time (rather that just checking top sometimes), it's at 1.5h but even that seems quite long.

I guess this is sort of up to the LLVM folks: if it's expected that DCE takes a very long time to link then I'm not opposed to allowing it, but if this is probably a bug in LLD then it seems best to turn it off until we sort things out over there.

I think maybe Nick or Nathan is the best bet to know?

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CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="Debian clang version 16.0.6 (++20230610113307+7cbf1a259152-1~exp1~20230610233402.106)"

Björn

maintainer
#26 lore raw
Quoted 29 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 16 lines · On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:51:15 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Conor Dooley <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

Quoted 8 lines

I took palmer/for-next (1bd2963b2175 ("Merge patch series "riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"")) for a tuxmake build with llvm-16:

  | ~/src/tuxmake/run -v --wrapper ccache --target-arch riscv \
  |     --toolchain=llvm-16 --runtime docker --directory . -k \
  |     allyesconfig

Took forever, but passed after 2.5h.

Thanks. I just re-ran mine 17/trunk LLD under time (rather that just checking top sometimes), it's at 1.5h but even that seems quite long.

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I guess this is sort of up to the LLVM folks: if it's expected that DCE takes a very long time to link then I'm not opposed to allowing it, but if this is probably a bug in LLD then it seems best to turn it off until we sort things out over there.

I think maybe Nick or Nathan is the best bet to know?

Looks like it's about 2h for me. I'm going to drop these from my staging tree in the interest of making progress on other stuff, but if this is just expected behavior them I'm OK taking them (though that's too much compute for me to test regularly):

$ time ../../../../llvm/install/bin/ld.lld -melf64lriscv -z noexecstack -r -o vmlinux.o --whole-archive vmlinux.a --no-whole-archive --start-group ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a --end-group                                                                                                                                    
real    111m50.678s
user    111m18.739s
sys     1m13.147s
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CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="Debian clang version 16.0.6 (++20230610113307+7cbf1a259152-1~exp1~20230610233402.106)"

Björn

#27 lore raw
Quoted 43 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 29 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 16 lines · On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:51:15 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Conor Dooley <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

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I took palmer/for-next (1bd2963b2175 ("Merge patch series "riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"")) for a tuxmake build with llvm-16:

  | ~/src/tuxmake/run -v --wrapper ccache --target-arch riscv \
  |     --toolchain=llvm-16 --runtime docker --directory . -k \
  |     allyesconfig

Took forever, but passed after 2.5h.

Thanks. I just re-ran mine 17/trunk LLD under time (rather that just checking top sometimes), it's at 1.5h but even that seems quite long.

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I guess this is sort of up to the LLVM folks: if it's expected that DCE takes a very long time to link then I'm not opposed to allowing it, but if this is probably a bug in LLD then it seems best to turn it off until we sort things out over there.

I think maybe Nick or Nathan is the best bet to know?

Looks like it's about 2h for me. I'm going to drop these from my staging tree in the interest of making progress on other stuff, but if this is just expected behavior them I'm OK taking them (though that's too much compute for me to test regularly):

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$ time ../../../../llvm/install/bin/ld.lld -melf64lriscv -z noexecstack -r -o vmlinux.o --whole-archive vmlinux.a --no-whole-archive --start-group ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a --end-group
real    111m50.678s
user    111m18.739s
sys     1m13.147s

Ah, I think you meant s/allmodconfig/allyesconfig/ in your initial report. That makes more sense, and I can reproduce. Let me work on a report.

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CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="Debian clang version 16.0.6 (++20230610113307+7cbf1a259152-1~exp1~20230610233402.106)"

Björn

--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

maintainer
#28 lore raw
Quoted 46 lines · On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:40:59 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 45 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 29 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 16 lines · On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:51:15 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Conor Dooley <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

Quoted 8 lines

I took palmer/for-next (1bd2963b2175 ("Merge patch series "riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"")) for a tuxmake build with llvm-16:

  | ~/src/tuxmake/run -v --wrapper ccache --target-arch riscv \
  |     --toolchain=llvm-16 --runtime docker --directory . -k \
  |     allyesconfig

Took forever, but passed after 2.5h.

Thanks. I just re-ran mine 17/trunk LLD under time (rather that just checking top sometimes), it's at 1.5h but even that seems quite long.

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I guess this is sort of up to the LLVM folks: if it's expected that DCE takes a very long time to link then I'm not opposed to allowing it, but if this is probably a bug in LLD then it seems best to turn it off until we sort things out over there.

I think maybe Nick or Nathan is the best bet to know?

Looks like it's about 2h for me. I'm going to drop these from my staging tree in the interest of making progress on other stuff, but if this is just expected behavior them I'm OK taking them (though that's too much compute for me to test regularly):

$ time ../../../../llvm/install/bin/ld.lld -melf64lriscv -z noexecstack -r -o vmlinux.o --whole-archive vmlinux.a --no-whole-archive --start-group ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a --end-group
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real    111m50.678s
user    111m18.739s
sys     1m13.147s

Ah, I think you meant s/allmodconfig/allyesconfig/ in your initial report. That makes more sense, and I can reproduce. Let me work on a report.

Awesome, thanks!

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CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="Debian clang version 16.0.6 (++20230610113307+7cbf1a259152-1~exp1~20230610233402.106)"

Björn

#29 lore raw
In reply to Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 29 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 16 lines · On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:51:15 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Conor Dooley <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

Quoted 8 lines

I took palmer/for-next (1bd2963b2175 ("Merge patch series "riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"")) for a tuxmake build with llvm-16:

  | ~/src/tuxmake/run -v --wrapper ccache --target-arch riscv \
  |     --toolchain=llvm-16 --runtime docker --directory . -k \
  |     allyesconfig

Took forever, but passed after 2.5h.

Thanks. I just re-ran mine 17/trunk LLD under time (rather that just checking top sometimes), it's at 1.5h but even that seems quite long.

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I guess this is sort of up to the LLVM folks: if it's expected that DCE takes a very long time to link then I'm not opposed to allowing it, but if this is probably a bug in LLD then it seems best to turn it off until we sort things out over there.

I think maybe Nick or Nathan is the best bet to know?

I can confirm a regression with allyesconfig but not allmodconfig using LLVM 16.0.6 on my 80-core Ampere Altra system.

allmodconfig: 8m 4s
allmodconfig + CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=n: 7m 4s
allyesconfig: 1h 58m 30s
allyesconfig + CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=n: 12m 41s

I am sure there is something that ld.lld can do better, given GNU ld does not have any problems as earlier established, so that should definitely be explored further. I see Nick already had a response about writing up a report (I wrote most of this before that email so I am still sending this one).

However, allyesconfig is pretty special and not really indicative of a "real world" kernel build in my opinion (which will either be a fully modular kernel to allow use on a wide range of hardware or a monolithic kernel with just the drivers needed for a specific platform, which will be much smaller than allyesconfig); it has given us problems with large kernels before on other architectures.

CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is already marked with 'depends on EXPERT' and its help text mentions its perils, so it does not seem unreasonable to me to add an additional dependency on !COMPILE_TEST so that allmodconfig and allyesconfig cannot flip this on, something like the following perhaps?

init/Kconfig +1 -1
index 32c24950c4ce..25434cbd2a6e 100644
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
-	depends on EXPERT
+	depends on EXPERT && !COMPILE_TEST
 	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
 	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
 	help

If applying that dependency to all architectures is too much, the selection in arch/riscv/Kconfig could be gated on the same condition.

Cheers,
Nathan

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Quoted 37 lines · On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:53:27 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 29 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 16 lines · On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:51:15 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Conor Dooley <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

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I took palmer/for-next (1bd2963b2175 ("Merge patch series "riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"")) for a tuxmake build with llvm-16:

  | ~/src/tuxmake/run -v --wrapper ccache --target-arch riscv \
  |     --toolchain=llvm-16 --runtime docker --directory . -k \
  |     allyesconfig

Took forever, but passed after 2.5h.

Thanks. I just re-ran mine 17/trunk LLD under time (rather that just checking top sometimes), it's at 1.5h but even that seems quite long.

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I guess this is sort of up to the LLVM folks: if it's expected that DCE takes a very long time to link then I'm not opposed to allowing it, but if this is probably a bug in LLD then it seems best to turn it off until we sort things out over there.

I think maybe Nick or Nathan is the best bet to know?

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I can confirm a regression with allyesconfig but not allmodconfig using LLVM 16.0.6 on my 80-core Ampere Altra system.

allmodconfig: 8m 4s
allmodconfig + CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=n: 7m 4s
allyesconfig: 1h 58m 30s
allyesconfig + CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=n: 12m 41s

Are those backwards? I'm getting super slow builds after merging the patch set, not before -- though apologize in advance if I'm reading it wrong, I'm well on my way to falling asleep already ;)

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I am sure there is something that ld.lld can do better, given GNU ld does not have any problems as earlier established, so that should definitely be explored further. I see Nick already had a response about writing up a report (I wrote most of this before that email so I am still sending this one).

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However, allyesconfig is pretty special and not really indicative of a "real world" kernel build in my opinion (which will either be a fully modular kernel to allow use on a wide range of hardware or a monolithic kernel with just the drivers needed for a specific platform, which will be much smaller than allyesconfig); it has given us problems with large kernels before on other architectures.

I totally agree that allyesconfig is an oddity, but it's something that does get regularly build tested so a big build time hit there is going to cause trouble -- maybe not for users, but it'll be a problem for maintainers and that's way more likely to get me yelled at ;)

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CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is already marked with 'depends on EXPERT' and its help text mentions its perils, so it does not seem unreasonable to me to add an additional dependency on !COMPILE_TEST so that allmodconfig and allyesconfig cannot flip this on, something like the following perhaps?

init/Kconfig +1 -1
index 32c24950c4ce..25434cbd2a6e 100644
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
-	depends on EXPERT
+	depends on EXPERT && !COMPILE_TEST
 	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
 	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
 	help
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If applying that dependency to all architectures is too much, the selection in arch/riscv/Kconfig could be gated on the same condition.

Is the regression for all ports, or just RISC-V? I'm fine gating this with some sort of Kconfig flag, if it's just impacting RISC-V then it seems sane to keep it over here.

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Cheers,
Nathan

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Quoted 41 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 40 lines · On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:53:27 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:
Quoted 29 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 16 lines · On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:51:15 PDT (-0700), [email protected] wrote:

Conor Dooley <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

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So I'm no longer actually sure there's a hang, just something slow. That's even more of a grey area, but I think it's sane to call a 1-hour link time a regression -- unless it's expected that this is just very slow to link?

I dunno, if it was only a thing for allyesconfig, then whatever - but it's gonna significantly increase build times for any large kernels if LLD is this much slower than LD. Regression in my book.

I'm gonna go and experiment with mixed toolchain builds, I'll report back..

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I took palmer/for-next (1bd2963b2175 ("Merge patch series "riscv: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"")) for a tuxmake build with llvm-16:

  | ~/src/tuxmake/run -v --wrapper ccache --target-arch riscv \
  |     --toolchain=llvm-16 --runtime docker --directory . -k \
  |     allyesconfig

Took forever, but passed after 2.5h.

Thanks. I just re-ran mine 17/trunk LLD under time (rather that just checking top sometimes), it's at 1.5h but even that seems quite long.

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I guess this is sort of up to the LLVM folks: if it's expected that DCE takes a very long time to link then I'm not opposed to allowing it, but if this is probably a bug in LLD then it seems best to turn it off until we sort things out over there.

I think maybe Nick or Nathan is the best bet to know?

I can confirm a regression with allyesconfig but not allmodconfig using LLVM 16.0.6 on my 80-core Ampere Altra system.

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allmodconfig: 8m 4s
allmodconfig + CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=n: 7m 4s
allyesconfig: 1h 58m 30s
allyesconfig + CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=n: 12m 41s

Are those backwards? I'm getting super slow builds after merging the patch set, not before -- though apologize in advance if I'm reading it wrong, I'm well on my way to falling asleep already ;)

I know I already responded to you around this on IRC but I will do it here too for the benefit of others following this thread.

These numbers are from the patchset applied on top of dad9774deaf1 ("Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2023-06-21' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip"); in other words, allmodconfig and allyesconfig have CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y so turning it off is basically like building allmodconfig and allyesconfig before the patchset was applied.

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I am sure there is something that ld.lld can do better, given GNU ld does not have any problems as earlier established, so that should definitely be explored further. I see Nick already had a response about writing up a report (I wrote most of this before that email so I am still sending this one).

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However, allyesconfig is pretty special and not really indicative of a "real world" kernel build in my opinion (which will either be a fully modular kernel to allow use on a wide range of hardware or a monolithic kernel with just the drivers needed for a specific platform, which will be much smaller than allyesconfig); it has given us problems with large kernels before on other architectures.

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I totally agree that allyesconfig is an oddity, but it's something that does get regularly build tested so a big build time hit there is going to cause trouble -- maybe not for users, but it'll be a problem for maintainers and that's way more likely to get me yelled at ;)

Agreed. That comment was more around justification for opting out of CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with these configurations, since CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST has effective become "am I allmodconfig or allyesconfig?" nowadays.

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CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is already marked with 'depends on EXPERT' and its help text mentions its perils, so it does not seem unreasonable to me to add an additional dependency on !COMPILE_TEST so that allmodconfig and allyesconfig cannot flip this on, something like the following perhaps?

init/Kconfig +1 -1
index 32c24950c4ce..25434cbd2a6e 100644
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
 	bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
-	depends on EXPERT
+	depends on EXPERT && !COMPILE_TEST
 	depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
 	depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
 	help
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If applying that dependency to all architectures is too much, the selection in arch/riscv/Kconfig could be gated on the same condition.

Is the regression for all ports, or just RISC-V? I'm fine gating this with some sort of Kconfig flag, if it's just impacting RISC-V then it seems sane to keep it over here.

I am not sure. Only mips selects HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION unconditionally and we don't test ARCH=mips all{mod,yes}config (not sure why off the top of my head). powerpc selects it when using objtool for mcount generation, which only happens for ppc32 (which we don't test heavily or with large kernels) or using '-mprofile-kernel', which clang does not support.

If you wanted to restrict it to just LD_IS_BFD in arch/riscv/Kconfig, that would be fine with me too.

select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if LD_IS_BFD

Nick said he would work on a report for the LLVM side, so as long as this issue is handled in some way to avoid regressing LLD builds until it is resolved, I don't think there is anything else for the kernel to do. We like to have breadcrumbs via issue links, not sure if the report will be internal to Google or on LLVM's issue tracker though; regardless, we will have to touch this block to add a version check later, at which point we can add a link to the fix in LLD.

Cheers,
Nathan

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Quoted 4 lines · Nathan Chancellor

If you wanted to restrict it to just LD_IS_BFD in arch/riscv/Kconfig, that would be fine with me too.

select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if LD_IS_BFD

Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with the attached patch applied on top / at the end of your series?

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Nick said he would work on a report for the LLVM side, so as long as this issue is handled in some way to avoid regressing LLD builds until it is resolved, I don't think there is anything else for the kernel to do. We like to have breadcrumbs via issue links, not sure if the report will be internal to Google or on LLVM's issue tracker though; regardless, we will have to touch this block to add a version check later, at which point we can add a link to the fix in LLD.

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881

From 3e5e010958ee41b9fb408cfade8fb017c2fe7169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:06:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] riscv: disable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for LLD

Linking allyesconfig with ld.lld-17 with CONFIG_DEAD_CODE_ELIMINATION=y takes hours. Assuming this is a performance regression that can be fixed, tentatively disable this for now so that allyesconfig builds don't start timing out. If and when there's a fix to ld.lld, this can be converted to a version check instead so that users of older but still supported versions of ld.lld don't hurt themselves by enabling CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y.

---
Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with this patch on top/at the end of your patch series?

 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/riscv/Kconfig +2 -1
index 8effe5bb7788..0573991e9b78 100644
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ config RISCV
 	select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
-	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
+	# https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881
+	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if !LD_IS_LLD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
 	select HAVE_PCI
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#33 lore raw
Quoted 8 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 4 lines · Nathan Chancellor

If you wanted to restrict it to just LD_IS_BFD in arch/riscv/Kconfig, that would be fine with me too.

select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if LD_IS_BFD

Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with the attached patch applied on top / at the end of your series?

Hi Nick, Nathan, Palmer,

I saw the series has been applied to riscv-next, so I'm not sure which solution would it be, Palmer to apply Nick's patch to riscv-next or I to send out v3, any suggestion is appreciated.

Thanks

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Nick said he would work on a report for the LLVM side, so as long as this issue is handled in some way to avoid regressing LLD builds until it is resolved, I don't think there is anything else for the kernel to do. We like to have breadcrumbs via issue links, not sure if the report will be internal to Google or on LLVM's issue tracker though; regardless, we will have to touch this block to add a version check later, at which point we can add a link to the fix in LLD.

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881

From 3e5e010958ee41b9fb408cfade8fb017c2fe7169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:06:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] riscv: disable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for LLD

Linking allyesconfig with ld.lld-17 with CONFIG_DEAD_CODE_ELIMINATION=y takes hours. Assuming this is a performance regression that can be fixed, tentatively disable this for now so that allyesconfig builds don't start timing out. If and when there's a fix to ld.lld, this can be converted to a version check instead so that users of older but still supported versions of ld.lld don't hurt themselves by enabling CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y.

---
Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with this patch on top/at the end of your patch series?

 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/riscv/Kconfig +2 -1
index 8effe5bb7788..0573991e9b78 100644
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ config RISCV
 	select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
-	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
+	# https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881
+	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if !LD_IS_LLD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
 	select HAVE_PCI
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#34 lore raw
Quoted 7 lines · Jisheng Zhang
Quoted 6 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 4 lines · Nathan Chancellor

If you wanted to restrict it to just LD_IS_BFD in arch/riscv/Kconfig, that would be fine with me too.

select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if LD_IS_BFD

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Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with the attached patch applied on top / at the end of your series?

Hi Nick, Nathan, Palmer,

I saw the series has been applied to riscv-next, so I'm not sure which solution would it be, Palmer to apply Nick's patch to riscv-next or I to send out v3, any suggestion is appreciated.

I don't see what you are seeing w/ riscv/for-next. HEAD is currently at 4681dacadeef ("riscv: replace deprecated scall with ecall") and there are no patches from your series in the branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git/log/?h=for-next

Cheers,
Conor.

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Nick said he would work on a report for the LLVM side, so as long as this issue is handled in some way to avoid regressing LLD builds until it is resolved, I don't think there is anything else for the kernel to do. We like to have breadcrumbs via issue links, not sure if the report will be internal to Google or on LLVM's issue tracker though; regardless, we will have to touch this block to add a version check later, at which point we can add a link to the fix in LLD.

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881

From 3e5e010958ee41b9fb408cfade8fb017c2fe7169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:06:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] riscv: disable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for LLD

Linking allyesconfig with ld.lld-17 with CONFIG_DEAD_CODE_ELIMINATION=y takes hours. Assuming this is a performance regression that can be fixed, tentatively disable this for now so that allyesconfig builds don't start timing out. If and when there's a fix to ld.lld, this can be converted to a version check instead so that users of older but still supported versions of ld.lld don't hurt themselves by enabling CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y.

---
Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with this patch on top/at the end of your patch series?

 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/riscv/Kconfig +2 -1
index 8effe5bb7788..0573991e9b78 100644
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ config RISCV
 	select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
-	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
+	# https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881
+	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if !LD_IS_LLD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
 	select HAVE_PCI
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#35 lore raw
Quoted 13 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 12 lines · Jisheng Zhang
Quoted 8 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 4 lines · Nathan Chancellor

If you wanted to restrict it to just LD_IS_BFD in arch/riscv/Kconfig, that would be fine with me too.

select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if LD_IS_BFD

Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with the attached patch applied on top / at the end of your series?

Hi Nick, Nathan, Palmer,

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I saw the series has been applied to riscv-next, so I'm not sure which solution would it be, Palmer to apply Nick's patch to riscv-next or I to send out v3, any suggestion is appreciated.

I don't see what you are seeing w/ riscv/for-next. HEAD is currently at 4681dacadeef ("riscv: replace deprecated scall with ecall") and there are no patches from your series in the branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git/log/?h=for-next

It's been in and out of staging a few times as we tracked down the performance regression, but it shouldn't have ever made it to linux-next for real.

I'm fine just picking up the patch to disable DCE, I've got a few other (hopefully small) things to work through first though.

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Cheers,
Conor.

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Nick said he would work on a report for the LLVM side, so as long as this issue is handled in some way to avoid regressing LLD builds until it is resolved, I don't think there is anything else for the kernel to do. We like to have breadcrumbs via issue links, not sure if the report will be internal to Google or on LLVM's issue tracker though; regardless, we will have to touch this block to add a version check later, at which point we can add a link to the fix in LLD.

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881

From 3e5e010958ee41b9fb408cfade8fb017c2fe7169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:06:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] riscv: disable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for LLD

Linking allyesconfig with ld.lld-17 with CONFIG_DEAD_CODE_ELIMINATION=y takes hours. Assuming this is a performance regression that can be fixed, tentatively disable this for now so that allyesconfig builds don't start timing out. If and when there's a fix to ld.lld, this can be converted to a version check instead so that users of older but still supported versions of ld.lld don't hurt themselves by enabling CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y.

---
Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with this patch on top/at the end of your patch series?

 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/riscv/Kconfig +2 -1
index 8effe5bb7788..0573991e9b78 100644
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ config RISCV
 	select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
-	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
+	# https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881
+	select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if !LD_IS_LLD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
 	select HAVE_PCI
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#36 lore raw
Quoted 24 lines · Palmer Dabbelt
Quoted 13 lines · Conor Dooley
Quoted 12 lines · Jisheng Zhang
Quoted 8 lines · Nick Desaulniers
Quoted 4 lines · Nathan Chancellor

If you wanted to restrict it to just LD_IS_BFD in arch/riscv/Kconfig, that would be fine with me too.

select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if LD_IS_BFD

Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with the attached patch applied on top / at the end of your series?

Hi Nick, Nathan, Palmer,

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I saw the series has been applied to riscv-next, so I'm not sure which solution would it be, Palmer to apply Nick's patch to riscv-next or I to send out v3, any suggestion is appreciated.

I don't see what you are seeing w/ riscv/for-next. HEAD is currently at 4681dacadeef ("riscv: replace deprecated scall with ecall") and there are no patches from your series in the branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git/log/?h=for-next

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It's been in and out of staging a few times as we tracked down the performance regression, but it shouldn't have ever made it to linux-next for real.

I'm fine just picking up the patch to disable DCE, I've got a few other (hopefully small) things to work through first though.

Note: for GCC, -fpatchable-function-entry= (used by arch/riscv/Kconfig) require GCC 13 for correct garbage collection semantics.
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110729

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Cheers,
Conor.

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Nick said he would work on a report for the LLVM side, so as long as this issue is handled in some way to avoid regressing LLD builds until it is resolved, I don't think there is anything else for the kernel to do. We like to have breadcrumbs via issue links, not sure if the report will be internal to Google or on LLVM's issue tracker though; regardless, we will have to touch this block to add a version check later, at which point we can add a link to the fix in LLD.

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881

From 3e5e010958ee41b9fb408cfade8fb017c2fe7169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Desaulniers <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:06:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] riscv: disable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for LLD

Linking allyesconfig with ld.lld-17 with CONFIG_DEAD_CODE_ELIMINATION=y takes hours. Assuming this is a performance regression that can be fixed, tentatively disable this for now so that allyesconfig builds don't start timing out. If and when there's a fix to ld.lld, this can be converted to a version check instead so that users of older but still supported versions of ld.lld don't hurt themselves by enabling CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y.

---
Hi Jisheng, would you mind sending a v3 with this patch on top/at the end of your patch series?

 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/riscv/Kconfig +2 -2
index 8effe5bb7788..0573991e9b78 100644
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ config RISCV
   select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
   select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL
   select HAVE_KRETPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL
-  select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
+  # https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1881
+  select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if !LD_IS_LLD
   select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
   select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
   select HAVE_PCI
--

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