On 12/10/13 01:15, Tomasz Figa wrote:
On Tuesday 10 of December 2013 00:11:40 Daniel Kurtz wrote:
Hi Tomasz,
Thank you for the reviews.
On Dec 9, 2013 5:15 AM, "Tomasz Figa"<t.f...@samsung.com> wrote:
Hi Daniel,
On Thursday 21 of November 2013 02:21:24 Daniel Kurtz wrote:
These tables are all immutable, make them const to save 4416 bytes of RAM.
size arch/arm/mach-exynos/pmu.o
text data bss
848 4420 4 // before
5264 4 4 // after
I'm not sure where the mentioned saving of RAM is. Moving data between
sections is not supposed to make it use less memory, I believe.
You are correct. This was my misunderstanding from doing too much
work with microcontrollers, where .text sections are accessed in place
from FLASH for code and const data, but .data memory is copied from a
FLASH section to a second RAM section at init for access at runtime.
Most modern Linux systems copy/decompress their code and data sections
from external storage to RAM anyway, so there is no actual memory
savings (except potentially the compiler may be able to optimize a bit
more with the const hint).
Anyway, it's a good practice to mark constant data as const, to disallow
changing them at runtime by mistake, so the patch is fine. Except some
issues I commented on inline.
Were there supposed to be inline comments? I don't see any.
Oops, sorry for this, forgot to remove the last sentence. I initially had
one question about the constant pointers below, but I read through the
full code again and answered it myself.
The patch is fine.
Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa<t.f...@samsung.com>
OK, applied 1 to 3 patches into cleanup.
Thanks,
Kukjin
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