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Date:   Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:24:21 +0200
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To:     "Zhangjin Wu" <falcon@tinylab.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/7] DCE/DSE: Add Dead Syscalls Elimination support, part1
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2023, at 09:14, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023, at 00:33, Zhangjin Wu wrote:
>
> It would be nice to include some size numbers here for at least
> one practical use case. If you have a defconfig for a shipping
> product with a small kernel, what is the 'size -B' output you
> see comparing with and without DCE and, and with DCE+DSE?

To follow up on this myself, for a very rough baseline,
I tried a riscv tinyconfig build with and without 
CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION (this is currently
not supported on arm, so I did not try it there), and
then another build with simply *all* system calls stubbed
out by hacking asm/syscall-wrapper.h:

$ size build/tmp/vmlinux-*
   text	   data	    bss	     dec    hex	filename
  754772  220016  71841	 1046629  ff865	vmlinux-tinyconfig
  717500  223368  71841	 1012709  f73e5	vmlinux-tiny+nosyscalls
  567310  176200  71473	  814983  c6f87	vmlinux-tiny+gc-sections
  493278  170752  71433	  735463  b38e7	vmlinux-tiny+gc-sections+nosyscalls
10120058 3572756 493701	14186515 d87813	vmlinux-defconfig
 9953934 3529004 491525	13974463 d53bbf	vmlinux-defconfig+gc
 9709856 3500600 489221	13699677 d10a5d	vmlinux-defconfig+gc+nosyscalls

This would put us at an upper bound of 10% size savings (80kb) for
tinyconfig, which is clearly significant. For defconfig, it's
still 2.0% or 275kb size reduction when all syscalls are dropped.

     Arnd