Re: [U-Boot] patch for gc-sections
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 14:22 -0400, Haiying Wang wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 09:36 -0700, Peter Tyser wrote: Glad to hear. I'll submit an official patch shortly. Just to make sure, have you tried running one of the nand-spl images after the patch I sent yesterday? It'd be good to get confirmation that the -gc-sections doesn't have any accidental side effects as I wasn't able to test it. Because of the second bug, I can not test it based on the top of the uboot tree. I just use 2010.06 version plus your two patches, and run the nand-spl image on MPC8569MDS board. Only NAND boot... transfering control is printed out in the terminal. It means the final u-boot image doesn't work. Then I make changes to u-boot-nand.lds and u-boot-nand_spl.lds, following the changes you made for u-boot.lds, I get the first u-boot line U-Boot 2010.06... printed out which means the final u-boot image can work a little bit. But nothing else is showed up in terminal. Do you have any idea on how to make changes to u-boot-nand/_spl.lds? I figured out the problem now. The bootpg was removed by --gc-section as well, so I need to add KEEP for it in u-boot-nand.lds. Patch will come out, I tested on MPC8569MDS board against top of the tree. Haiying ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
Re: [U-Boot] patch for gc-sections
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 13:38 -0700, Peter Tyser wrote: I'd guess none of the functions in the SPL binary are referenced in the linker script or linker command line, so the linker thinks none of them are necessary and removes them. Can you try the following patch: I did a quick compile test, and it seemed to work, as well as stripped out a few unused functions. Thanks for your patch, it did work to generate the binary, however, there are two problems: 1. The u-boot size for nand_spl is not cut down as expected. /* before apply your new patch */ 29292 2010-11-04 09:29 nand_spl/u-boot-spl 0 2010-11-04 09:29 nand_spl/u-boot-spl-16k.bin 0 2010-11-04 09:29 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin 13931 2010-11-04 09:29 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.map /* After apply your new patch */ 35636 2010-11-04 09:49 nand_spl/u-boot-spl 116912128 2010-11-04 09:49 nand_spl/u-boot-spl-16k.bin 4096 2010-11-04 09:49 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin 16381 2010-11-04 09:49 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.map /* Remove your two patches(remove gc-section patch and this new patch */ 34094 2010-11-04 09:51 nand_spl/u-boot-spl 116912128 2010-11-04 09:51 nand_spl/u-boot-spl-16k.bin 4096 2010-11-04 09:51 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin 14097 2010-11-04 09:51 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.map 2.the u-boot-spl.bin is 4096 bytes, and u-boot-spl-16.bin which should be padded to 4K bytes is 116912128 bytes. You can take a look at nand_spl/board/freescale/mpc8536ds/Makefile to see how u-boot-spl.bin/u-boot-spl-16k.bin is generated. I don't know which patch(not your gc-section for sure) cause this problem. I just reset my git tree to 2010.06, the size is: 33512 2010-11-04 10:07 nand_spl/u-boot-spl 4096 2010-11-04 10:07 nand_spl/u-boot-spl-16k.bin 4096 2010-11-04 10:07 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin 14037 2010-11-04 10:07 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.map So we need to find out the cause for the huge u-boot-spl-16k.bin. Anyway, thanks for taking care of this. Haiying ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
Re: [U-Boot] patch for gc-sections
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 10:19 -0400, Haiying Wang wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 13:38 -0700, Peter Tyser wrote: I'd guess none of the functions in the SPL binary are referenced in the linker script or linker command line, so the linker thinks none of them are necessary and removes them. Can you try the following patch: I did a quick compile test, and it seemed to work, as well as stripped out a few unused functions. Thanks for your patch, it did work to generate the binary, however, there are two problems: 1. The u-boot size for nand_spl is not cut down as expected. /* before apply your new patch */ 29292 2010-11-04 09:29 nand_spl/u-boot-spl 0 2010-11-04 09:29 nand_spl/u-boot-spl-16k.bin 0 2010-11-04 09:29 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin 13931 2010-11-04 09:29 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.map /* After apply your new patch */ 35636 2010-11-04 09:49 nand_spl/u-boot-spl 116912128 2010-11-04 09:49 nand_spl/u-boot-spl-16k.bin 4096 2010-11-04 09:49 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin 16381 2010-11-04 09:49 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.map /* Remove your two patches(remove gc-section patch and this new patch */ 34094 2010-11-04 09:51 nand_spl/u-boot-spl 116912128 2010-11-04 09:51 nand_spl/u-boot-spl-16k.bin 4096 2010-11-04 09:51 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin 14097 2010-11-04 09:51 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.map Can you explain what you mean? The binary needs to be 4K, right? So it can't be trimmed down. But there should be more available space in that 4K region, eg (all tests on MPC8536DS_NAND_config): /* After apply my patch sent yesterday */ pty...@petert u-boot $ size after/u-boot-spl textdata bss dec hex filename 3440 460 03900 f3c after/u-boot-spl /* Remove my two patches(remove gc-section patch and this new patch) */ pty...@petert u-boot $ size before/u-boot-spl textdata bss dec hex filename 3620 460 04080 ff0 before/u-boot-spl The above says 180 bytes were removed between fbe53f59bd40b3b1ab66dc98859e26589d64d1b7 and the current HEAD. I'm assuming some of that savings is due to -gc-sections (I think 2-3 functions were stripped out via -gc-sections). You can just look at filesizes of ELF and map files to determine savings, you'll have to use size/objdump/readelf to determine how the code size is really affected. 2.the u-boot-spl.bin is 4096 bytes, and u-boot-spl-16.bin which should be padded to 4K bytes is 116912128 bytes. You can take a look at nand_spl/board/freescale/mpc8536ds/Makefile to see how u-boot-spl.bin/u-boot-spl-16k.bin is generated. I don't know which patch(not your gc-section for sure) cause this problem. I just reset my git tree to 2010.06, the size is: 33512 2010-11-04 10:07 nand_spl/u-boot-spl 4096 2010-11-04 10:07 nand_spl/u-boot-spl-16k.bin 4096 2010-11-04 10:07 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.bin 14037 2010-11-04 10:07 nand_spl/u-boot-spl.map I batted an eye when I saw the 112M file to, but it looks like that is unrelated to my change: /* Remove my two patches(remove gc-section patch and this new patch) */ pty...@petert u-boot $ ls -lh after/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 ptyser users 36K 2010-11-04 10:25 u-boot-spl -rwxr-xr-x 1 ptyser users 112M 2010-11-04 10:25 u-boot-spl-16k.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 ptyser users 4.0K 2010-11-04 10:25 u-boot-spl.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 ptyser users 16K 2010-11-04 10:25 u-boot-spl.map /* Remove my two patches(remove gc-section patch and this new patch) */ pty...@petert u-boot $ ls -lh before/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 ptyser users 35K 2010-11-04 10:26 u-boot-spl -rwxr-xr-x 1 ptyser users 112M 2010-11-04 10:26 u-boot-spl-16k.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 ptyser users 4.0K 2010-11-04 10:26 u-boot-spl.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 ptyser users 13K 2010-11-04 10:26 u-boot-spl.map The PAD_TO address is set to 0xfff01000, and each of include/configs/MPC8536DS.h, include/configs/MPC8569MDS.h, include/configs/P1_P2_RDB.h set CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE to 0xf8f82000. 0xff01000 - 0xff82000 = 0x6F7F000 = 116912128 (as seen above). Are these boards mis-configured? In any case, everything seems to be working as expected from what I can tell after the example patch I sent yesterday. Let me know if I'm missing something. Best, Peter ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
Re: [U-Boot] patch for gc-sections
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 08:45 -0700, Peter Tyser wrote: Can you explain what you mean? The binary needs to be 4K, right? So it can't be trimmed down. But there should be more available space in that 4K region, eg (all tests on MPC8536DS_NAND_config): /* After apply my patch sent yesterday */ pty...@petert u-boot $ size after/u-boot-spl textdata bss dec hex filename 3440 460 03900 f3c after/u-boot-spl /* Remove my two patches(remove gc-section patch and this new patch) */ pty...@petert u-boot $ size before/u-boot-spl textdata bss dec hex filename 3620 460 04080 ff0 before/u-boot-spl Yes, you are right, the size is down. I only noticed the u-boot-spl size by using ls -l, not via size. Now I get the same result as yours. It is very good to see this trim-down size because I know some board developers are fighting with the 4k limitation of the nand-spl size. Are you going to submit your new patch to upstream? Btw, the filesize I see here is smaller than yours, I guess you are using the most updated gcc version. I am using gcc-4.3.2. I batted an eye when I saw the 112M file to, but it looks like that is unrelated to my change: It is not related to your change, I see it happens on 2010.09 which doesn't have your change. Something between 2010.06 and 2010.09 makes this happen. Thanks. Haiying ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
Re: [U-Boot] patch for gc-sections
Yes, you are right, the size is down. I only noticed the u-boot-spl size by using ls -l, not via size. Now I get the same result as yours. It is very good to see this trim-down size because I know some board developers are fighting with the 4k limitation of the nand-spl size. Are you going to submit your new patch to upstream? Glad to hear. I'll submit an official patch shortly. Just to make sure, have you tried running one of the nand-spl images after the patch I sent yesterday? It'd be good to get confirmation that the -gc-sections doesn't have any accidental side effects as I wasn't able to test it. Btw, the filesize I see here is smaller than yours, I guess you are using the most updated gcc version. I am using gcc-4.3.2. I was using gcc 4.2.2 in my tests for what its worth. I batted an eye when I saw the 112M file to, but it looks like that is unrelated to my change: It is not related to your change, I see it happens on 2010.09 which doesn't have your change. Something between 2010.06 and 2010.09 makes this happen. One more bug to track down:) Best, Peter ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
Re: [U-Boot] patch for gc-sections
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 09:36 -0700, Peter Tyser wrote: Glad to hear. I'll submit an official patch shortly. Just to make sure, have you tried running one of the nand-spl images after the patch I sent yesterday? It'd be good to get confirmation that the -gc-sections doesn't have any accidental side effects as I wasn't able to test it. Because of the second bug, I can not test it based on the top of the uboot tree. I just use 2010.06 version plus your two patches, and run the nand-spl image on MPC8569MDS board. Only NAND boot... transfering control is printed out in the terminal. It means the final u-boot image doesn't work. Then I make changes to u-boot-nand.lds and u-boot-nand_spl.lds, following the changes you made for u-boot.lds, I get the first u-boot line U-Boot 2010.06... printed out which means the final u-boot image can work a little bit. But nothing else is showed up in terminal. Do you have any idea on how to make changes to u-boot-nand/_spl.lds? Thanks. Haiying ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
Re: [U-Boot] patch for gc-sections
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 15:07 -0400, Haiying Wang wrote:
Peter,
Do you have any idea on why your commit:
commit fbe53f59bd40b3b1ab66dc98859e26589d64d1b7
Author: Peter Tyser pty...@xes-inc.com
Date: Wed Sep 29 14:05:56 2010 -0500
85xx: Use gc-sections to reduce image size
I'd guess none of the functions in the SPL binary are referenced in the
linker script or linker command line, so the linker thinks none of them
are necessary and removes them.
Can you try the following patch:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-nand_spl.lds
b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-nand_spl.lds
index 7d9cee9..53d33ee 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-nand_spl.lds
+++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-nand_spl.lds
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ SECTIONS
__init_end = .;
.resetvec ADDR(.text) + 0xffc : {
- *(.resetvec)
+ KEEP(*(.resetvec))
} = 0x
__bss_start = .;
I did a quick compile test, and it seemed to work, as well as stripped
out a few unused functions.
Best,
Peter
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