MIPS: Enable dead code elimination
Select CONFIG_HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION for MIPS, allowing the user to enable dead code elimination. In order for this to work, ensure that we keep the data bus exception table & the machine list by annotating them with KEEP. This shrinks both 32r2el_defconfig & 64r6el_defconfig builds by ~6%, as shown by numbers from scripts/bloat-o-meter: | 32r2el_defconfig | 64r6el_defconfig --------|------------------|------------------ No DCE | 8919864 | 8286307 DCE | 8338988 (-6.51%) | 7741808 (-6.57%) Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/21187/ Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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