On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 07:12 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * David Howells <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ
>
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ
>
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ
>
> I think the myriad of arch switches and the resulting #ifdef noise, just
> to get rid of a _single_ unused global function, is pretty lame. (and
> that's of course not your fault)
>
> The real solution would be to use gcc -ffunction-sections plus ld
> --gc-sections to automatically get rid of unused global functions, at
> link time. I'm wondering how hard it would be to enhance kbuild to do
> that - x86_64 already uses -ffunction-sections (if CONFIG_REORDER), so
> the big question is how usable is ld --gc-sections. Such a feature would
> be quite important for embedded systems (and for RAM footprint in
> general) as it would save a significant amount of .text and .data.
It can't optimize __do_IRQ() out in any case if one uses
generic_handle_irq() because of the test in there which can't be
predicted at compile time. My fault ... Maybe we should go back to
having generic_handle_irq() not do the NULL test and not call __do_IRQ()
and have another generic_handle_irq_compat() or some stupid name like
that do what the current generic_handle_irq() does. I added that to
handle the case of partial conversion (which we still have to deal with
on powerpc as arch/ppc hasn't been converted).
Ben.
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