Give up on pushing CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE

I still happen to believe that I$ miss costs are a major thing, but
sadly, -Os doesn't seem to be the solution.  With or without it, gcc
will miss some obvious code size improvements, and with it enabled gcc
will sometimes make choices that aren't good even with high I$ miss
ratios.

For example, with -Os, gcc on x86 will turn a 20-byte constant memcpy
into a "rep movsl".  While I sincerely hope that x86 CPU's will some day
do a good job at that, they certainly don't do it yet, and the cost is
higher than a L1 I$ miss would be.

Some day I hope we can re-enable this.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 4986ecc49e6566c4a7ac4900de1b540a3a0c1685..ffcdad793f14d3f9acc3d0ffc0883ff6fad2a3a3 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -908,7 +908,6 @@ endif
 
 config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
        bool "Optimize for size"
-       default y
        help
          Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
          resulting in a smaller kernel.