From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758190AbYHVBz2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:55:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752250AbYHVBzT (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:55:19 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:39816 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751726AbYHVBzS (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:55:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:57:18 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Andi Kleen , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move sysctl check into debugging section and don't make it default y Message-ID: <20080822015718.GC23334@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1218865985-23403-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20080821064009.GB18831@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andi Kleen writes: > > >> What is a feature change like this doing coming in after the > >> merge window? > > > > I considered it a "anti bloat bugfix". Adding 30k of > > object code to allno was a bit too much. > > 30k??? Which platform are you testing on ia64???? > > On x86_64 it is 8k text and 8k data. x86-64 with 4.1. See the size output in the original commit. text data bss dec hex filename 36243 0 0 36243 8d93 kernel/sysctl_check.o 36k actually. -Andi