From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 04/11] mm: compaction: export some of the functions
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:22:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112121622.04236.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111212154015.GI3277@csn.ul.ie>
On Monday 12 December 2011, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The bloat exists either way. I don't believe the linker strips it out so
> overall it would make more sense to depend on compaction to keep the
> vmstat counters for debugging reasons if nothing else. It's not
> something I feel very strongly about though.
There were some previous attempts to use -fgc-sections to strip out
unused functions from the kernel, but I think they were never merged
because of regressions.
Arnd
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org,
Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shariq Hasnain <shariq.hasnain@linaro.org>,
Chunsang Jeong <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] mm: compaction: export some of the functions
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:22:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112121622.04236.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111212154015.GI3277@csn.ul.ie>
On Monday 12 December 2011, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The bloat exists either way. I don't believe the linker strips it out so
> overall it would make more sense to depend on compaction to keep the
> vmstat counters for debugging reasons if nothing else. It's not
> something I feel very strongly about though.
There were some previous attempts to use -fgc-sections to strip out
unused functions from the kernel, but I think they were never merged
because of regressions.
Arnd
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org,
Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shariq Hasnain <shariq.hasnain@linaro.org>,
Chunsang Jeong <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] mm: compaction: export some of the functions
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:22:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112121622.04236.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111212154015.GI3277@csn.ul.ie>
On Monday 12 December 2011, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The bloat exists either way. I don't believe the linker strips it out so
> overall it would make more sense to depend on compaction to keep the
> vmstat counters for debugging reasons if nothing else. It's not
> something I feel very strongly about though.
There were some previous attempts to use -fgc-sections to strip out
unused functions from the kernel, but I think they were never merged
because of regressions.
Arnd
--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-12 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-18 16:43 [PATCHv17 0/11] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 01/11] mm: page_alloc: handle MIGRATE_ISOLATE in free_pcppages_bulk() Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 13:42 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 13:42 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 13:42 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:23 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:23 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:23 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:42 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:42 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:42 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 02/11] mm: compaction: introduce isolate_{free,migrate}pages_range() Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 14:07 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:07 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:07 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:22 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:22 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:22 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 16:30 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 16:30 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 16:30 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 16:46 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 16:46 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 16:46 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 17:20 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 17:20 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 17:20 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 03/11] mm: mmzone: introduce zone_pfn_same_memmap() Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 14:19 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:19 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:19 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:35 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:35 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:35 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:40 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:40 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:40 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:51 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:51 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:51 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:51 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:51 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:51 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 04/11] mm: compaction: export some of the functions Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 14:29 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:29 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:29 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:41 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:41 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:41 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:40 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:40 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:40 ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:46 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:46 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:46 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 16:22 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-12-12 16:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-12-12 16:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 05/11] mm: page_alloc: introduce alloc_contig_range() Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 06/11] mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 07/11] mm: page_isolation: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 08/11] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 09/11] X86: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 10/11] ARM: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 11/11] ARM: Samsung: use CMA for 2 memory banks for s5p-mfc device Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 21:20 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCHv17 0/11] Contiguous Memory Allocator sandeep patil
2011-11-18 21:20 ` sandeep patil
2011-11-18 21:20 ` sandeep patil
2011-11-18 21:26 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-18 21:26 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-18 21:26 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-18 23:30 ` sandeep patil
2011-11-18 23:30 ` sandeep patil
2011-11-18 23:30 ` sandeep patil
2011-11-19 18:09 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-19 18:09 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-19 18:09 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-25 16:43 ` [PATCH] mm: cma: hack/workaround for some allocation issues Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-25 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-25 16:43 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-25 21:08 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-25 21:08 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-25 21:08 ` Michal Nazarewicz
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=201112121622.04236.arnd@arndb.de \
--to=arnd@arndb.de \
--cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.