Re: [patch 1/2] move WARN_ON() out of line

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 22:26 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Subject: move WARN_ON() out of line
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> CC: Matt Meckall <mpm@selenic.com>
> 
> A quick grep shows that there are currently 1145 instances of WARN_ON
> in the kernel. Currently, WARN_ON is pretty much entirely inlined,
> which makes it hard to enhance it without growing the size of the kernel
> (and getting Andrew rightfully unhappy).
> 
> This patch build on top of Olof's patch that introduces __WARN,
> and places the slowpath out of line. It also uses Ingo's suggestion
> to not use __FUNCTION__ but to use kallsyms to do the lookup;
> this saves a ton of extra space since gcc doesn't need to store the function
> string twice now:
>
> 3936367  833603  624736 5394706  525112 vmlinux.before
> 3917508  833603  624736 5375847  520767 vmlinux-slowpath

Nice!

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

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