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@@ -1038,6 +1038,33 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
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+config HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
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+ bool
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+ help
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+ This requires that the arch annotates or otherwise protects
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+ its external entry points from being discarded. Linker scripts
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+ must also merge .text.*, .data.*, and .bss.* correctly into
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+ output sections. Care must be taken not to pull in unrelated
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+ sections (e.g., '.text.init'). Typically '.' in section names
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+ is used to distinguish them from label names / C identifiers.
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+config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
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+ bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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+ depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
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+ depends on EXPERT
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+ help
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+ Select this if the architecture wants to do dead code and
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+ data elimination with the linker by compiling with
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+ -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, and linking with
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+ --gc-sections.
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+ This can reduce on disk and in-memory size of the kernel
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+ code and static data, particularly for small configs and
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+ on small systems. This has the possibility of introducing
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+ silently broken kernel if the required annotations are not
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+ present. This option is not well tested yet, so use at your
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+ own risk.
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config SYSCTL
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bool
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