From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030360AbWAGIdz (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 03:33:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030359AbWAGIdz (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 03:33:55 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49111 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030360AbWAGIdy (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 03:33:54 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] Series to allow a "const" file_operations struct From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Eric Dumazet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060106162913.7621895c.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1136583937.2940.90.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1136584539.2940.105.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <43BEF338.3010403@cosmosbay.com> <20060106162913.7621895c.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:33:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1136622827.2936.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Confused. Why should this result in an aggregate reduction in vmlinux size? there shouldn't be. It's just moving these things from the .data section (where cachelines get dirtied all the time) to .rodata (where they're not)