Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/10] 64 bit resources

[Andrew Morton]

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> Here is an attempt to implement support for 64 bit resources. This will
> enable memory more than 4G to be exported through /proc/iomem, which is used
> by kexec/kdump to determine the physical memory layout of the system.
> 
> ...
> 
> We used "make allyesconfig" with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n on 2.6.16-mm1.
> 
> i386
> ----
> 
> vmlinux size without patch: 40191425
> vmlinux size with path: 40244677
> vmlinux size bloat: 52K (.13%)

ugh, that's actually a surprising amount of growth.  Could you look into it
a bit more please?  Where's it coming from?  text?  data?

A bit of growth in drivers is probably OK, as all machines load a tiny
subset of them.  But if it's core kernel, not so good.  What is the effect
on allnoconfig?
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