Re: [PATCH v2] mm/page_alloc.c: inline __rmqueue()

[Aaron Lu]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 10:19:52PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 10/09/2017 07:56 PM, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > This patch adds inline to __rmqueue() and vmlinux' size doesn't have any
> > change after this patch according to size(1).
> > 
> > without this patch:
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex     filename
> > 9968576 5793372 17715200  33477148  1fed21c vmlinux
> > 
> > with this patch:
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex     filename
> > 9968576 5793372 17715200  33477148  1fed21c vmlinux
> 
> This is unexpected.  Could you double-check this, please?

mm/page_alloc.o has size changes:

Without this patch:
$ size mm/page_alloc.o
  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 36695    9792    8396   54883    d663 mm/page_alloc.o

With this patch:
$ size mm/page_alloc.o
  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 37511    9792    8396   55699    d993 mm/page_alloc.o

But vmlinux doesn't.

It's not clear to me what happened, do you want to me dig this out?