Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
This patch strips off 8 bytes from text section. Not a really
big advantage (especially for __init section). It seems 8192
bytes of disassembled code is rare used anyway.
before:
text data bss dec hex filename
9900 176 20 10096 2770 arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.o.old
after:
text data bss dec hex filename
9892 176 20 10088 2768 arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.o
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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If there is no benefit at all - just drop the patch.
Any comments are welcome ;)
I don't think this is the behaviour we want (wrapping around); worse, if
people enter a larger power of two they will get zero.
So NAK on this patch, IMO.
-hpa
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