From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com> Don't populate the const read-only array 'buf' on the stack but instead make it static. Makes the object code smaller by 64 bytes:
Before: text data bss dec hex filename 9264 1 16 9281 2441 arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.o After: text data bss dec hex filename 9200 1 16 9217 2401 arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.o (gcc version 7.2.0 x86_64) Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c index 886a9115af62..f2251c1c9853 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ static void retrieve_apple_device_properties(struct boot_params *boot_params) static void setup_quirks(struct boot_params *boot_params) { - efi_char16_t const apple[] = { 'A', 'p', 'p', 'l', 'e', 0 }; + static efi_char16_t const apple[] = { 'A', 'p', 'p', 'l', 'e', 0 }; efi_char16_t *fw_vendor = (efi_char16_t *)(unsigned long) efi_table_attr(efi_system_table, fw_vendor, sys_table); -- 2.15.1