From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
x86@kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86: microcode: constify attribute_group structures.
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:48:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27e82108-10c3-a411-d6ad-c399b603db82@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170720081207.GA18424@nazgul.tnic>
Hi,
On Thursday 20 July 2017 01:42 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:51:45PM +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
>> attribute_group are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
>> working with attribute_group provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with
>> const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
>>
>> File size before:
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> 3614 545 1560 5719 1657 x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.o
>>
>> File size After adding 'const':
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> 3742 417 1560 5719 1657 x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.o
> Again, what are those before/after sizes supposed to show?
It's just show, how much bytes move from data segment to text segment.
~arvind
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-20 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-20 7:21 [PATCH 0/7] constify x86 " Arvind Yadav
2017-07-20 7:21 ` [PATCH 1/7] perf: x86: intel: uncore: constify " Arvind Yadav
2017-07-20 7:21 ` [PATCH 2/7] perf: x86: intel: uncore_nhmex: " Arvind Yadav
2017-07-20 7:21 ` [PATCH 3/7] perf: x86: intel: uncore_snb: " Arvind Yadav
2017-07-20 7:21 ` [PATCH 4/7] perf: x86: intel: uncore_snbep: " Arvind Yadav
2017-07-20 7:21 ` [PATCH 5/7] x86: ksysfs: " Arvind Yadav
2017-07-20 7:21 ` [PATCH 6/7] x86: therm_throt: " Arvind Yadav
2017-07-20 7:21 ` [PATCH 7/7] x86: microcode: " Arvind Yadav
2017-07-20 8:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-20 8:18 ` Arvind Yadav [this message]
2017-07-20 8:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-20 9:01 ` Arvind Yadav
2017-07-20 10:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-20 11:01 ` Arvind Yadav
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