Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:29:40 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Toomas Soome <tsoome@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r304321 - in head/sys: boot/efi/boot1 boot/efi/loader boot/i386/boot2 boot/i386/gptboot boot/i386/gptzfsboot boot/i386/zfsboot boot/userboot/ficl boot/userboot/userboot boot/userboot/zf... Message-ID: <20160823112940.GW22212@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <1C479C8A-9F58-425C-8AC2-0A6809F39ACA@me.com> References: <201608180037.u7I0b77A095653@repo.freebsd.org> <7bdb0cf5-e139-375b-8be6-c1280e39da25@FreeBSD.org> <4c76efd6-146a-e70b-c065-729d223e3398@FreeBSD.org> <AE24A37C-51F5-4CEC-9399-D7FDEBC93972@me.com> <CANCZdfo0P7CPPf4khzj_JnSjWQ4gVqK9wSEqW=LCdZKQwGh6Sw@mail.gmail.com> <AE896F50-D053-4C30-BB43-286E1CCDE4B8@me.com> <1C479C8A-9F58-425C-8AC2-0A6809F39ACA@me.com>
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:05:47AM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote: > > > On 22. aug 2016, at 17:56, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On 22. aug 2016, at 17:19, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote: > >>> I do suspect the size difference there is partially due to ficl, in illumos (ficl 4): > >>> > >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 tsoome staff 132508 aug 22 09:18 libficl.a > >>> > >>> and freebsd (ficl 3): > >>> > >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 213748 Aug 19 01:57 libficl.a > >>> > >>> so, there definitely is some space… > >> > >> Same compiler? Clang bloats the boot code rather substantially, even after > >> all the flags to tell it to generate smaller code are used. gcc 4.2.x > >> built stuff > >> was substantially smaller. > >> > >> There's a 520kb limit enforced in the boot1 for similar reasons. Looks like > >> the combination of options makes us use just enough extra memory to > >> sink the battleship... > >> > >> Warner > >> > > > > > > Actually I only now realized I was comparing apples with oranges… I forgot the fbsd builds 32bit version in ficl32, this one is 64bit. and yes the 32bit version is not that big at all:D > > > > Also, after done some digging, I have found few instances of duplicated code (we can share sha2 with geli and so if sha512 is already needed, it will become another “free lunch”). Also, unless I’m mistaken, for some reason the bzip *compression* is brought in - correct me if I’m wrong, but afaik only decompression is needed… > > > > So before going after “useless features”, there are some “hidden” resources to remove extra fat. > > > > I did some more digging. while ld has —gc-sections to clean up unused bits, to make it effective, the code build does also need -Os -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections. > So I did just very simple test by adding those flags to bsd.stand.mk and: > > first the “default” binaries from /boot: > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 446464 Aug 19 08:46 /boot/zfsloader > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 438272 Aug 23 00:30 /boot/zfsloader.b > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 446464 Aug 5 08:37 /boot/zfsloader.old > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 406568 Aug 19 08:46 /boot/userboot.so > > (note, zfsloader.b here is built with https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7600) > > now after adding compile flags -Os -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 389120 Aug 23 10:12 zfsloader > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 378156 Aug 23 10:12 zfsloader.bin > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 437514 Aug 23 10:12 zfsloader.sym > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 375912 Aug 23 10:03 userboot.so > > and finally test for Andriy with: > LOADER_BZIP2_SUPPORT=yes > LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT=yes > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 421888 Aug 23 10:22 zfsloader > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 409932 Aug 23 10:22 zfsloader.bin > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 472021 Aug 23 10:22 zfsloader.sym > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 375912 Aug 23 10:22 userboot.so > > note the userboot.so did not change from those flags. > > This is just an result from compile, and by adding 3 options to bsd.stand.mk; however, not all Makefiles in loader tree seem to include it, and most importantly, haven’t tested real boot yet;) > > To conclude, some more work is needed to review the Makefiles, build options used etc, also I don’t know all the background why the compiler options are set as they currently are - were there any related compiler/linker bugs, or any other reasons, also how/if other platforms are affected - for example bsd.stand.mk does set -Os for pc98, but not for others… This is only size on disk, memory consuming still same, IMHO.
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