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When compiled with GCC 8.1, vmlinux is significantly bigger than with GCC 4.8. When looking at the generated code with objdump, we notice that all functions and loops when a 16 bytes alignment. This significantly increases the size of the kernel. It is pointless and even counterproductive as on the 8xx 'nop' also consumes one clock cycle. Size of vmlinux with GCC 4.8: text data bss dec hex filename 58019481626076457796 7885820 7853fc vmlinux Size of vmlinux with GCC 8.1: text data bss dec hex filename 6764592 1630652 456476 8851720 871108 vmlinux Size of vmlinux with GCC 8.1 and this patch: text data bss dec hex filename 63315441631756456476 8419776 8079c0 vmlinux Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.