Re: [RFC] switch m68k to use the generic remapping DMA allocator

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jun 25 2019 - 03:35:58 EST


On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:26:48AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > bloat-o-meter says:
> > >
> > > add/remove: 75/0 grow/shrink: 11/6 up/down: 4122/-82 (4040)
> >
> > What do these values stand for? The code should grow a little as
> > we now need to include the the pool allocator for the above API
> > fix.
>
> Last 3 values are "bytes added/removed (net increase)".
> So this increases the static kernel size by ca. 4 KiB.

That seems a lot for the little bit of pool code. Did m68k not
build lib/genalloc.c by default before?

Also I'd be curious what the first 4 values are.