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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] [ARM ATTEND] kernel data bloat and how to avoid it
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 05:33:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130731123351.GA30474@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130731073802.GT7656@atomide.com>

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:38:03AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Probably the biggest kernel data bloat issue is in the ARM land, but
> it also seems that it's becoming a Linux generic issue too, so I
> guess it could be discussed in either context.

Why is it specific to ARM?  What is so unique to ARM that causes it to
"bloat"?

And what exactly do you mean by "bloat"?

> Basically the data bloat issue is there for the arch code and drivers
> and may not show up initially until things have headed the wrong way for
> too long.

What do you mean by this?  You seem to be very vague here.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-31 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-31  7:38 [ATTEND] [ARM ATTEND] kernel data bloat and how to avoid it Tony Lindgren
2013-07-31 12:33 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-07-31 13:53   ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Jason Cooper
2013-08-02  7:55     ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-02  7:53   ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-02  8:03     ` Felipe Balbi
2013-08-02  8:26       ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-02  8:11     ` Greg KH
2013-08-02  8:39       ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-02 12:41     ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-02 13:24       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-08-05  6:30         ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-02 19:57     ` Mike Turquette
2013-08-05  6:36       ` Tony Lindgren
2013-07-31 15:21 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-02  8:13   ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-02 21:31     ` Matt Sealey
2013-08-03  5:30       ` Olof Johansson
2013-08-05  6:43         ` Tony Lindgren

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