kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination

Introduce LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION option for architectures to
select to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link
with --gc-sections. It requires some work (documented) to ensure all
unreferenced entrypoints are live, and requires toolchain and build
verification, so it is made a per-arch option for now.

On a random powerpc64le build, this yelds a significant size saving,
it boots and runs fine, but there is a lot I haven't tested as yet, so
these savings may be reduced if there are bugs in the link.

    text      data        bss        dec   filename
11169741   1180744    1923176	14273661   vmlinux
10445269   1004127    1919707	13369103   vmlinux.dce

~700K text, ~170K data, 6% removed from kernel image size.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-24 22:29:20 +10:00
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@@ -467,6 +467,19 @@ config THIN_ARCHIVES
Select this if the architecture wants to use thin archives
instead of ld -r to create the built-in.o files.
config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
bool
help
Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
data elimination with the linker by compiling with
-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and linking with
--gc-sections.
This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
output sections.
config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
bool
help