On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:31:40PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > So why should an alternatives-CALL, inlined directly into call sites, > cost more kernel space?
Not the alternatives CALL alone but inlining _copy_*_user with all the preparation glue around it would. Basically what we're doing currently. See how uninlining copy_user_generic() dropped text size from 12375798 to 12269658. But let me do some more staring... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/