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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/32] init.h: remove __cpuinit sections from the kernel
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:10:32 -0700
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On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 12:51 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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?

Nevermind...

I just checked using readelf -S.

Seems sensible to me.