Subject: [PATCH] ppc boot: replace string labels with numbers

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:09:02 +0100

Replacing the string labels with numbers saves 117 bytes in the final zImage.
These local labels are not discared.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>

 arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S |   23 +++++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.15-rc1-olh/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc1-olh.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-olh/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
@@ -14,43 +14,42 @@
 	.text
 	.globl	_zimage_start
 _zimage_start:
-	bl	reloc_offset
+	bl	1f
 
-reloc_offset:
+1:
 	mflr	r0
-	lis	r9,reloc_offset@ha
-	addi	r9,r9,reloc_offset@l
+	lis	r9,1b@ha
+	addi	r9,r9,1b@l
 	subf.	r0,r9,r0
-	beq	clear_caches
+	beq	3f
 
-reloc_got2:
 	lis	r9,__got2_start@ha
 	addi	r9,r9,__got2_start@l
 	lis	r8,__got2_end@ha
 	addi	r8,r8,__got2_end@l
 	subf.	r8,r9,r8
-	beq	clear_caches
+	beq	3f
 	srwi.	r8,r8,2
 	mtctr	r8
 	add	r9,r0,r9
-reloc_got2_loop:
+2:
 	lwz	r8,0(r9)
 	add	r8,r8,r0
 	stw	r8,0(r9)
 	addi	r9,r9,4
-	bdnz	reloc_got2_loop
+	bdnz	2b
 
-clear_caches:
+3:
 	lis	r9,_start@h
 	add	r9,r0,r9
 	lis	r8,_etext@ha
 	addi	r8,r8,_etext@l
 	add	r8,r0,r8
-1:	dcbf	r0,r9
+4:	dcbf	r0,r9
 	icbi	r0,r9
 	addi	r9,r9,0x20
 	cmplwi	0,r9,8
-	blt	1b
+	blt	4b
 	sync
 	isync
 
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