+ modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings.patch added to -mm tree

+ modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     modules: no need to align .modinfo strings
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings.patch

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Subject: modules: no need to align .modinfo strings
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>

gcc aligns strings as a performance consideration for those cases where
strings are being used a lot.

Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to save
some space.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/moduleparam.h |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/linux/moduleparam.h~modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings include/linux/moduleparam.h
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h~modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings
+++ a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 #define __module_cat(a,b) ___module_cat(a,b)
 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)					  \
 static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[]				  \
-  __used								  \
-  __attribute__((section(".modinfo"),unused)) = __stringify(tag) "=" info
+  __used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1)))	  \
+  = __stringify(tag) "=" info
 #else  /* !MODULE */
 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)
 #endif
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from JBeulich@novell.com are

linux-next.patch
modules-no-need-to-align-modinfo-strings.patch