From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932187AbWDFQru (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:47:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932188AbWDFQru (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:47:50 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.193]:45643 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932187AbWDFQrt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:47:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TqJVoT/MIfeb3HYzRr5hRtLhzyVA1UBe8jO0uFzhAhGAxuGYaNojeXbIVkJVsqAsohDElaAtwVbXRM9RakIfZkWSKUqAs/erLgyPAsKNClrcH+722+tTOEOOuWhkLQLE3SvNOfKw1NZdx4Xw5zZB4tFu4VJwouPMpJHa6VDMVOY= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 19:47:48 +0300 From: "saeed bishara" To: "Paolo Ornati" Subject: Re: add new code section for kernel code Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, Linux-arm-toolchain@lists.arm.linux.org.uk In-Reply-To: <20060406151003.0ef4e637@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060406151003.0ef4e637@localhost> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I've tried to port this to my kernel (2.6.12.6), but the kenel fails to boot; it stops after Starting kernel .... I tried to add only the CFLAGS += -ffunction-sections to the arch/arm/Makefile, and it still fails. my tool chains is "gcc version 3.4.4 (release) (CodeSourcery ARM 2005q3-2)" any ideas? saeed On 4/6/06, Paolo Ornati wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:45:47 +0300 > "saeed bishara" wrote: > > > I'm developing linux kernel for ARM cpu with direct-mapped > > instruction cache, sometimes I notice that the pefromance of the > > kernel (for some test) is highly dependent on the code layout, in > > order to fix that I added new code section, and for each kernel > > function that highly invokerd I added compiler attribute so it will > > allocated in that section (exactly as the __init section) > > It's already done in 2.6.17-rc1 for x86_64: > > Processor type and feature --> Function reordering > > arch/x86_64/Kconfig: > > config REORDER > bool "Function reordering" > default n > help > This option enables the toolchain to reorder functions for a more > optimal TLB usage. If you have pretty much any version of binutils, > this can increase your kernel build time by roughly one minute. > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4bdc3b7f1b730c07f5a6ccca77ee68e044036ffc > > -- > Paolo Ornati > Linux 2.6.16.1 on x86_64 >