Re: [PATCH 2/2] spi: rpc-if: Remove CONFIG_PM_SLEEP ifdefery

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Pavel,

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 12:40 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >                 .name   = "rpc-if-spi",
> > > > > -               .pm     = DEV_PM_OPS,
> > > > > +               .pm     = &rpcif_spi_pm_ops,
> >
> > > > You're aware rpcif_spi_pm_ops is now always referenced and thus emitted,
> > > > increasing kernel size by 92 bytes if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n?
> > > > This may matter for RZ/A SoCs running from internal SRAM.
> >
> > > Hmm didn't realise this would be an issue on RZ/A.
> >
> > > Mark, could you please drop this patch from your branch.
> >
> > Please send an incremental patch with an appropriate changelog.
>
> Let's fix this properly. I'm pretty sure we have some macros that can
> solve this without re-introducing the ifdefs...

There's pm_ptr(), but it uses CONFIG_PM as a selector, not CONFIG_PM_SLEEP.

> (Besides... 92 bytes. How big is kernel these days? 4MB? More? How
> much SRAM do you have?)

92 bytes is indeed not much (on 64-bit it would be doubled).
Still, it's good to make people think about innocent looking changes,
once in a while.

RZ/A1H and RZ/A1M have 10 resp. 5 MiB of SRAM.
RZ/A2 has 4 MiB SRAM, which is sufficient to run Linux when used with
XIP (requires a one-line Kconfig change rmk has been vetoing for years).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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