From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/32] init.h: remove __cpuinit sections from the kernel Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:51:18 -0700 Message-ID: <1372103478.1245.23.camel@joe-AO722> References: <1372102237-8757-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1372102237-8757-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1372102237-8757-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 15:30 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense > some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings > do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in > commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") > is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created > with improper use of the various __init prefixes. Hi Paul. Could you please post the sizes of a generic kernel build with and without this?