From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932486AbWAGBBS (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:01:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932516AbWAGBBS (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:01:18 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:54217 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932486AbWAGBBR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:01:17 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] Series to allow a "const" file_operations struct Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 02:01:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Eric Dumazet , arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1136583937.2940.90.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <43BEF338.3010403@cosmosbay.com> <20060106162913.7621895c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060106162913.7621895c.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601070201.02984.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:bf0b512fe2ff06b96d9695102898be39 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2006 01:29 schrieb Andrew Morton: > > size vmlinux* > >     text    data     bss     dec     hex filename > > 2476156  522236  244868 3243260  317cfc vmlinux > > 2588685  571348  246692 3406725  33fb85 vmlinux.old > > Confused.   Why should this result in an aggregate reduction in vmlinux > size? The size tool only displays the sum of .text, .data and .bss, but completely ignores other sections. So if you manage to move part of the object e.g. into .rodata or .initdata, it will show a smaller size although the size of the actual vmlinux file stays the same. Erics point was just about .data getting smaller, not about the bogus sum. Arnd <><