Re: [PATCH] watchdog: asm9260_wdt: make array mode_name static, shrinks object size

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Nov 29 2018 - 18:40:52 EST


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:25:00PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Don't populate the const array mode_name on the stack but instead
> make it static. Makes the object code smaller by 41 bytes:
>
> Before:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 7699 1872 0 9571 2563 drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.o
>
> After:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 7594 1936 0 9530 253a drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.o
>
> (gcc version 8.2.0 x86_64)
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c
> index 2cf56b459d84..9768e44ffeb8 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c
> @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ static int asm9260_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct watchdog_device *wdd;
> struct resource *res;
> int ret;
> - const char * const mode_name[] = { "hw", "sw", "debug", };
> + static const char * const mode_name[] = { "hw", "sw", "debug", };
>
> priv = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct asm9260_wdt_priv),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> --
> 2.19.1
>