Re: [PATCH] i386 : Make arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.S use aseparate text section

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 16:29:35 EST



On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 16:11 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > # size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 4619942 422838 458752 5501532 53f25c vmlinux.before
> > 4610534 422838 458752 5492124 53cd9c vmlinux.after
> >
> > This saves 9408 bytes
>
> that's nice! Applied it to x86.git. I'm wondering, do we have other such
> cases? page alignment requirements are quite often for various CPU data
> structures.

They slip in from time to time, it would be nice to automate checking
for them.

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