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Re: [Proposed patch] Huge performance regression in ld -r since binutils >= 2.21
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Romain Geissler <romain dot geissler at amadeus dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:24:32 -0800
- Subject: Re: [Proposed patch] Huge performance regression in ld -r since binutils >= 2.21
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On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:04:42AM +0100, Romain Geissler wrote:
>> Indeed, much better idea. I will use your patch and apply it to x86/64 as
>> well.
>
> On checking I found I'd made a mistake in the previous patch, so
> decided to go with the safer approach of copying relocs at the end of
> the loop. Also, I'm not renaming "rel" to "rrel".
>
> * elf64-ppc.c (ppc64_elf_relocate_section): Use read and write
> pointers to reloc array, rather than memmove when deleting a
> reloc. Don't use RELOC_AGAINST_DISCARDED_SECTION. Adjust
> reloc counts at end of loop.
> * elf32-ppc.c (ppc_elf_relocate_section): Likewise.
>
I checked in a similar, but a little different, patch to fix i386 and
x86-64.
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H.J.