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

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:38:27 -0500

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?
>=20
> The following is the additional sections when relocatable is enabled =20
> for
> a p2020rdb board.
>    section        size
>   .dynsym       000007f0
>   .dynstr       00000926
>   .dynamic      00000080
>   .hash         00000388
>   .interp       00000011
>   .rela.dyn     00215250
>=20
> The time for the relocation is about 32ms on a p2020rdb board.

Hmm... more relocations than I expected.  What percentage is this of =20
the total image size?

-Scott=