On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 05:10:40PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 05:51:15PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Apr 2017, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, Nicolas!
> > >
> > > Saw the TTY write up LWN and figured I should send this your way.
> > > It should be worth about 2K compared to current -next, which gave
> > > up the 2K compared to v4.10. So really getting things back to where
> > > they were.
> > >
> > > My current plan is to push this into v4.13.
> >
> > Excellent!
> >
> > If every maintainer finds a way to (optionally) reduce the size of the
> > code they maintain by 2K then we'll get a much smaller kernel pretty
> > soon.
>
> I would feel better if it wasn't me who had added the 2K, but then
> again, I do look forward to seeing a negative-sized kernel! ;-)
And I am getting a lot of offlist pressure to remove both Tiny RCU and
Tiny SRCU. I am pushing back, but I might or might not prevail. In case
my pushback gets pushed back, do you have a -tiny tree or some such where
the code could go?
Thanx, Paul
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > commit e01ef0529ed548c1b30206058c2b5eecbbc07998
> > > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Date: Fri Apr 28 13:53:04 2017 -0700
> > >
> > > srcu: Make SRCU be once again optional
> > >
> > > Commit d160a727c40e ("srcu: Make SRCU be built by default") in
> > > response
> > > to build errors, which were caused by code that included srcu.h
> > > despite !SRCU. However, srcutiny.o is almost 2K of code, which is not
> > > insignificant for those attempting to run the Linux kernel on IoT
> > > devices.
> > > This commit therefore makes SRCU be once again optional, and adjusts
> > > srcu.h to allow error-free inclusion in !SRCU kernel builds.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org>
> >
> > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@linaro.org>
>
> Applied, thank you!
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h
> > > index 167ad8831aaf..c0143fe2e39d 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/srcu.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/srcu.h
> > > @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int init_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *sp);
> > > #include <linux/srcutree.h>
> > > #elif defined(CONFIG_CLASSIC_SRCU)
> > > #include <linux/srcuclassic.h>
> > > -#else
> > > +#elif defined(CONFIG_SRCU)
> > > #error "Unknown SRCU implementation specified to kernel configuration"
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> > > index 42a346b0df43..fe72c12e06a5 100644
> > > --- a/init/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> > > @@ -521,7 +521,6 @@ config RCU_EXPERT
> > >
> > > config SRCU
> > > bool
> > > - default y
> > > help
> > > This option selects the sleepable version of RCU. This version
> > > permits arbitrary sleeping or blocking within RCU read-side critical
> > >
> > >
> >
