Re: [PATCH] drm: Reduce object size of DRM_ERROR and DRM_DEBUG uses
From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Mar 15 2018 - 11:18:03 EST
On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 17:05 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 03:04:52PM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > Op 15-03-18 om 14:30 schreef Ville Syrjälä:
> > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 03:02:15PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > drm_printk is used for both DRM_ERROR and DRM_DEBUG with unnecessary
> > > > arguments that can be removed by creating separate functins.
> > > >
> > > > Create specific functions for these calls to reduce x86/64 defconfig
> > > > size by ~20k.
> > > >
> > > > Modify the existing macros to use the specific calls.
> > > >
> > > > new:
> > > > $ size -t drivers/gpu/drm/built-in.a | tail -1
> > > > 1876562 44542 995 1922099 1d5433 (TOTALS)
> > > >
> > > > old:
> > > > $ size -t drivers/gpu/drm/built-in.a | tail -1
> > > > 1897565 44542 995 1943102 1da63e (TOTALS)
> > > >
> > > > Miscellanea:
> > > >
> > > > o intel_display requires a change to use the specific calls.
> > >
> > > How much would we lose if we move the (drm_debug&FOO) outside the
> > > functions again?
again?
> > > I'm somewhat concerned about all the function call
> > > overhead when debugs aren't even enabled.
Perhaps better to have compilation elimination
of the entire debug output instead.
I think you are discussing a different issue and
this discussion should not block this patch as
this patch has no impact other than code size
reduction.