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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	olof@lixom.net, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] move WARN_ON() out of line
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 08:41:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080104074149.GC17447@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <477D52ED.7000403@linux.intel.com>


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> This patch build on top of Olof's patch that introduces __WARN, and 
> places the slowpath out of line. It also uses Ingo's suggestion to not 
> use __FUNCTION__ but to use kallsyms to do the lookup; this saves a 
> ton of extra space since gcc doesn't need to store the function string 
> twice now:
>
> 3936367  833603  624736 5394706  525112 vmlinux.before
> 3917508  833603  624736 5375847  520767 vmlinux-slowpath
>
> 15Kb savings...

hey, cool!

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

i'm wondering how we could put this into x86.git to get it tested some 
more. Olof's patch touches other architectures so it's not really 
appropriate. Maybe a portion of Olof's patch could be applied to make 
your patch apply cleanly?

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-03 21:26 [patch 1/2] move WARN_ON() out of line Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-03 22:27 ` Matt Mackall
2008-01-04  7:41 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-01-04 16:00   ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-05  9:59   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-04 16:27 ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-05 13:16 ` Dmitri Vorobiev

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