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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 16:11 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> 
> > # size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > 4619942  422838  458752 5501532  53f25c vmlinux.before
> > 4610534  422838  458752 5492124  53cd9c vmlinux.after
> > 
> > This saves 9408 bytes
> 
> that's nice! Applied it to x86.git. I'm wondering, do we have other such 
> cases? page alignment requirements are quite often for various CPU data 
> structures.

They slip in from time to time, it would be nice to automate checking
for them.

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