Re: PROPOSAL: Extend inline asm syntax with size spec

Joe Perches
2018-11-01T05:20:26Z

On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 13:55 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Anyway, with the below patch, I get:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 17385183 5064780 1953892 24403855 1745f8f defconfig-build/vmlinux
> 17385678 5064780 1953892 24404350 174617e defconfig-build/vmlinux
>
> Which shows we inline more (look for asm_volatile for the actual
> changes).
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> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++---
> scripts/genksyms/keywords.c | 4 +--
> scripts/kernel-doc | 4 +--

I believe these should be excluded from the conversions.

Other than that, generic conversion by script seems a good idea.