Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86: microcode: constify attribute_group structures.

[Arvind Yadav]

Hi,


On Thursday 20 July 2017 01:42 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:51:45PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> > attribute_group are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> > working with attribute_group provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with
> > const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> >
> > File size before:
> >     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >     3614	    545	   1560	   5719	   1657	x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.o
> >
> > File size After adding 'const':
> >     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >     3742	    417	   1560	   5719	   1657	x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.o
> Again, what are those before/after sizes supposed to show?
It's just show, how much bytes move from data segment to text segment.
~arvind