Re: [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: constify intel_dma_ops.

[Arvind Yadav]

Hi,

Most dma_map_ops structures are never modified. Constify these
structures such that these can be write-protected. This file size diff
will show the difference between data and text segment.

Thanks,
~arvind

On Wednesday 28 June 2017 02:23 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:48:34PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> > File size before:
> >     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >    32765	    758	   1824	  35347	   8a13	drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.o
> >
> > File size After adding 'const':
> >     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >    32925	    598	   1824	  35347	   8a13	drivers/iommu/intel-iommu.o
> What is the point of those commit-messages? They just show that the
> struct moved from data to the text segment. The overall size doesn't
> change much.
>
>
>
> 	Joerg