[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: enable the relocatable support for the fsl booke 32bit kernel

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jul 4 06:38:27 EST 2013


On 07/02/2013 10:00:44 PM, Kevin Hao wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 05:39:18PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > How much overhead (space and time) is this really?
> 
> The following is the additional sections when relocatable is enabled  
> for
> a p2020rdb board.
>    section        size
>   .dynsym       000007f0
>   .dynstr       00000926
>   .dynamic      00000080
>   .hash         00000388
>   .interp       00000011
>   .rela.dyn     00215250
> 
> The time for the relocation is about 32ms on a p2020rdb board.

Hmm... more relocations than I expected.  What percentage is this of  
the total image size?

-Scott


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