From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@lists.osdl.org,
torvalds@osdl.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
galak@kernel.crashing.org, gregkh@suse.de, bcrl@kvack.org,
dave.jiang@gmail.com, arjan@infradead.org, maneesh@in.ibm.com,
muralim@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/10] 64 bit resources
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:12:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060324011217.7b8aade1.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060323195752.GD7175@in.ibm.com>
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Here is an attempt to implement support for 64 bit resources. This will
> enable memory more than 4G to be exported through /proc/iomem, which is used
> by kexec/kdump to determine the physical memory layout of the system.
>
> ...
>
> We used "make allyesconfig" with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n on 2.6.16-mm1.
>
> i386
> ----
>
> vmlinux size without patch: 40191425
> vmlinux size with path: 40244677
> vmlinux size bloat: 52K (.13%)
ugh, that's actually a surprising amount of growth. Could you look into it
a bit more please? Where's it coming from? text? data?
A bit of growth in drivers is probably OK, as all machines load a tiny
subset of them. But if it's core kernel, not so good. What is the effect
on allnoconfig?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-24 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-23 19:57 Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 19:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/10] 64 bit resources core changes Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/10] 64 bit resources drivers pci changes Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/10] 64 bit resources drivers ide changes Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/10] 64 bit resources drivers media changes Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:04 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/10] 64 bit resources drivers net changes Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/10] 64 bit resources drivers pcmcia changes Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:07 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/10] 64 bit resources drivers others changes Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/10] 64 bit resources sound changes Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:10 ` [RFC][PATCH 9/10] 64 bit resources arch changes Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:11 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/10] i386: export memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem Vivek Goyal
2006-03-24 12:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/10] 64 bit resources drivers ide changes Alan Cox
2006-03-24 14:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:22 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/10] 64 bit resources core changes Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-23 20:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-03-23 20:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-23 20:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-23 21:02 ` Al Viro
2006-03-23 21:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-23 21:21 ` Al Viro
2006-03-23 21:01 ` Al Viro
2006-04-14 21:07 ` Matthieu CASTET
2006-03-24 9:12 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-24 18:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/10] 64 bit resources Vivek Goyal
2006-03-28 16:34 ` Kumar Gala
2006-03-28 22:24 ` Vivek Goyal
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