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From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: move tables.c fully into .init.*
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:56:15 +0100
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On 19/09/2012 08:29, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

>>>> On 18.09.12 at 17:42, Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 18/09/2012 16:26, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The only non-init item was the space reserved for the initial tables,
>>> but we can as well dynamically allocate that array.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>> 
>> Really worthwhile, versus having to round up the initial_tables[] allocation
>> to a whole number of pages?
> 
> It was exactly one page in size already.

Well, still I'm not sure about the style of converting static data to heap
data, just to be able to mark a whole unit init-only. If everything else is
already  marked init inside that file already, is there a win?

 -- Keir

> Jan
>