From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754122AbcDVJN3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2016 05:13:29 -0400 Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:58322 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751172AbcDVJN1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2016 05:13:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:13:24 +0200 From: Boris Brezillon To: Julia Lawall Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Richard Weinberger , David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R . Rodriguez" , Josh Triplett Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mtd: nandsim: add __init attribute Message-ID: <20160422111324.3fa42372@bbrezillon> In-Reply-To: <1461069215-22795-5-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> References: <1461069215-22795-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1461069215-22795-5-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:33:35 +0200 Julia Lawall wrote: > Add __init attribute on functions that are only called from other __init > functions and that are not inlined, at least with gcc version 4.8.4 on an > x86 machine with allyesconfig. Currently, the functions are put in the > .text.unlikely segment. Declaring them as __init will cause them to be > put in the .init.text and to disappear after initialization. > > The result of objdump -x on the functions before the change is as follows: > > 000000000000059a l F .text.unlikely 0000000000000239 alloc_device > 000000000000034e l F .text.unlikely 000000000000002e get_partition_name > 00000000000007d3 l F .text.unlikely 00000000000005da init_nandsim > > And after the change it is as follows: > > 0000000000000029 l F .init.text 0000000000000234 alloc_device > 0000000000000000 l F .init.text 0000000000000029 get_partition_name > 000000000000025d l F .init.text 00000000000005d5 init_nandsim > > Done with the help of Coccinelle. The semantic patch checks for local > static non-init functions that are called from an __init function and are > not called from any other function. > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall > > --- > drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Applied, thanks. Boris -- Boris Brezillon, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com