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kbuild: lto: limit inlining 

This change limits function inlining across translation unit boundaries
in order to reduce the binary size with LTO. The -import-instr-limit
flag defines a size limit, as the number of LLVM IR instructions, for
importing functions from other TUs, defaulting to 100.

Based on testing with arm64 defconfig, we found that a limit of 5 is a
reasonable compromise between performance and binary size, reducing the
size of a stripped vmlinux by 11%.

Suggested-by: George Burgess IV <gbiv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-5-samitolvanen@google.com
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Sami Tolvanen 2020-12-11 10:46:21 -08:00 committed by Kees Cook
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@ -901,6 +901,9 @@ else
CC_FLAGS_LTO += -flto
endif
CC_FLAGS_LTO += -fvisibility=hidden
# Limit inlining across translation units to reduce binary size
KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -mllvm -import-instr-limit=5
endif
ifdef CONFIG_LTO