Re: [PATCH] Move sysctl check into debugging section and don't make it default y

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 21:55:28 EST


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >> What is a feature change like this doing coming in after the
> >> merge window?
> >
> > I considered it a "anti bloat bugfix". Adding 30k of
> > object code to allno was a bit too much.
>
> 30k??? Which platform are you testing on ia64????
>
> On x86_64 it is 8k text and 8k data.

x86-64 with 4.1. See the size output in the original commit.

text data bss dec hex filename
36243 0 0 36243 8d93 kernel/sysctl_check.o

36k actually.

-Andi
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