kumquat-buildroot/toolchain/binutils/2.20.1/400-arm_link_speed.patch
Laine Walker-Avina b33e2abd4e toolchain/binutils: Improve arm linking performance
Backported a patch from CVS that improves linking times for large
projects (eg 700s to 6s). See
http://old.nabble.com/-PATCH--Reduce-ARM-linking-time-tt27961038.html
for the original.

[Peter: add patch header]
Signed-off-by: Laine Walker-Avina <lwalkera@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2010-04-20 09:11:26 +02:00

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From Binutils CVS:
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/elf32-arm.c?rev=1.230&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src
Improves linking time from large projects on ARM.
diff -dupr binutils-2.20.orig/bfd/elf32-arm.c binutils-2.20/bfd/elf32-arm.c
--- binutils-2.20.orig/bfd/elf32-arm.c 2010-04-19 10:08:50.000000000 -0700
+++ binutils-2.20/bfd/elf32-arm.c 2010-04-19 10:12:45.000000000 -0700
@@ -12736,108 +12736,15 @@ elf32_arm_section_from_shdr (bfd *abfd,
return TRUE;
}
-/* A structure used to record a list of sections, independently
- of the next and prev fields in the asection structure. */
-typedef struct section_list
-{
- asection * sec;
- struct section_list * next;
- struct section_list * prev;
-}
-section_list;
-
-/* Unfortunately we need to keep a list of sections for which
- an _arm_elf_section_data structure has been allocated. This
- is because it is possible for functions like elf32_arm_write_section
- to be called on a section which has had an elf_data_structure
- allocated for it (and so the used_by_bfd field is valid) but
- for which the ARM extended version of this structure - the
- _arm_elf_section_data structure - has not been allocated. */
-static section_list * sections_with_arm_elf_section_data = NULL;
-
-static void
-record_section_with_arm_elf_section_data (asection * sec)
-{
- struct section_list * entry;
-
- entry = bfd_malloc (sizeof (* entry));
- if (entry == NULL)
- return;
- entry->sec = sec;
- entry->next = sections_with_arm_elf_section_data;
- entry->prev = NULL;
- if (entry->next != NULL)
- entry->next->prev = entry;
- sections_with_arm_elf_section_data = entry;
-}
-
-static struct section_list *
-find_arm_elf_section_entry (asection * sec)
-{
- struct section_list * entry;
- static struct section_list * last_entry = NULL;
-
- /* This is a short cut for the typical case where the sections are added
- to the sections_with_arm_elf_section_data list in forward order and
- then looked up here in backwards order. This makes a real difference
- to the ld-srec/sec64k.exp linker test. */
- entry = sections_with_arm_elf_section_data;
- if (last_entry != NULL)
- {
- if (last_entry->sec == sec)
- entry = last_entry;
- else if (last_entry->next != NULL
- && last_entry->next->sec == sec)
- entry = last_entry->next;
- }
-
- for (; entry; entry = entry->next)
- if (entry->sec == sec)
- break;
-
- if (entry)
- /* Record the entry prior to this one - it is the entry we are most
- likely to want to locate next time. Also this way if we have been
- called from unrecord_section_with_arm_elf_section_data() we will not
- be caching a pointer that is about to be freed. */
- last_entry = entry->prev;
-
- return entry;
-}
-
static _arm_elf_section_data *
get_arm_elf_section_data (asection * sec)
{
- struct section_list * entry;
-
- entry = find_arm_elf_section_entry (sec);
-
- if (entry)
- return elf32_arm_section_data (entry->sec);
+ if (sec && sec->owner && is_arm_elf (sec->owner))
+ return elf32_arm_section_data (sec);
else
return NULL;
}
-static void
-unrecord_section_with_arm_elf_section_data (asection * sec)
-{
- struct section_list * entry;
-
- entry = find_arm_elf_section_entry (sec);
-
- if (entry)
- {
- if (entry->prev != NULL)
- entry->prev->next = entry->next;
- if (entry->next != NULL)
- entry->next->prev = entry->prev;
- if (entry == sections_with_arm_elf_section_data)
- sections_with_arm_elf_section_data = entry->next;
- free (entry);
- }
-}
-
-
typedef struct
{
void *finfo;
@@ -13230,8 +13137,6 @@ elf32_arm_new_section_hook (bfd *abfd, a
sec->used_by_bfd = sdata;
}
- record_section_with_arm_elf_section_data (sec);
-
return _bfd_elf_new_section_hook (abfd, sec);
}
@@ -13659,44 +13564,13 @@ elf32_arm_write_section (bfd *output_bfd
}
free (map);
- arm_data->mapcount = 0;
+ arm_data->mapcount = -1;
arm_data->mapsize = 0;
arm_data->map = NULL;
- unrecord_section_with_arm_elf_section_data (sec);
return FALSE;
}
-static void
-unrecord_section_via_map_over_sections (bfd * abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
- asection * sec,
- void * ignore ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
-{
- unrecord_section_with_arm_elf_section_data (sec);
-}
-
-static bfd_boolean
-elf32_arm_close_and_cleanup (bfd * abfd)
-{
- if (abfd->sections)
- bfd_map_over_sections (abfd,
- unrecord_section_via_map_over_sections,
- NULL);
-
- return _bfd_elf_close_and_cleanup (abfd);
-}
-
-static bfd_boolean
-elf32_arm_bfd_free_cached_info (bfd * abfd)
-{
- if (abfd->sections)
- bfd_map_over_sections (abfd,
- unrecord_section_via_map_over_sections,
- NULL);
-
- return _bfd_free_cached_info (abfd);
-}
-
/* Display STT_ARM_TFUNC symbols as functions. */
static void
@@ -13882,8 +13756,6 @@ const struct elf_size_info elf32_arm_siz
#define bfd_elf32_find_inliner_info elf32_arm_find_inliner_info
#define bfd_elf32_new_section_hook elf32_arm_new_section_hook
#define bfd_elf32_bfd_is_target_special_symbol elf32_arm_is_target_special_symbol
-#define bfd_elf32_close_and_cleanup elf32_arm_close_and_cleanup
-#define bfd_elf32_bfd_free_cached_info elf32_arm_bfd_free_cached_info
#define bfd_elf32_bfd_final_link elf32_arm_final_link
#define elf_backend_get_symbol_type elf32_arm_get_symbol_type