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Jakub Kicinski says: ==================== This set adds support for complete removal of dead code. Patch 3 contains all the code removal logic, patches 2 and 4 additionally optimize branches around and to dead code. Patches 6 and 7 allow offload JITs to take advantage of the optimization. After a few small clean ups (8, 9, 10) nfp support is added (11, 12). Removing code directly in the verifier makes it easy to adjust the relevant metadata (line info, subprogram info). JITs for code store constrained architectures would have hard time performing such adjustments at JIT level. Removing subprograms or line info is very hard once BPF core finished the verification. For user space to perform dead code removal it would have to perform the execution simulation/analysis similar to what the verifier does. v3: - fix uninitilized var warning in GCC 6 (buildbot). v4: - simplify the linfo-keeping logic (Yonghong). Instead of trying to figure out that we are removing first instruction of a subprogram, just always keep last dead line info, if first live instruction doesn't have one. v5: - improve comments (Martin Lau). ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.