From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: remove top-level built-in.a
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:15:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1547536378.afs6amsrzj.astroid@bobo.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1547436479-10491-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Masahiro Yamada's on January 14, 2019 1:27 pm:
> The symbol table in the final archive is unneeded because it is passed
> to the linker after the --whole-archive option. Every object file in
> the archive is included in the link anyway.
>
> Pass thin archives from subdirectories directly to the linker, and
> remove the final archiving step.
This seems like a good improvement. As far as I remember, it was slower
to do the final link without the index built. Maybe I was testing it
in a revision before moving those files into --whole-archive? If there
is no slowdown, then I have no objection.
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-15 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-14 3:27 Masahiro Yamada
2019-01-14 3:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: merge KBUILD_VMLINUX_{INIT,MAIN} into KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS Masahiro Yamada
2019-01-15 7:15 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2019-01-15 9:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: remove top-level built-in.a Masahiro Yamada
2019-01-23 8:26 ` Nicholas Piggin
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