On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 03:38:27PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > 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?
The size of vmlinux.bin is about 10M. The percentage of the relocation section is about 20%. But look on the bright side of thing, all the relocation stuff are in init section and should be discarded at runtime. :-) Thanks, Kevin > > -Scott
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