From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755895AbYAEPLw (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:11:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754493AbYAEPLp (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:11:45 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:52750 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754022AbYAEPLo (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:11:44 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:11:34 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Eric Dumazet Cc: linux kernel , pavel@suse.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 : Make arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.S use a separate text section Message-ID: <20080105151134.GB9595@elte.hu> References: <20080103210426.35543645.dada1@cosmosbay.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080103210426.35543645.dada1@cosmosbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0010] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Eric Dumazet 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. Ingo