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| From | Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5260: Move struct samsung_cmu_info to init section |
| Date | 2016-08-24 10:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <s9BT4-89D-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <s99N7-6le-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <s98em-5c0-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <s99N7-6le-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <s9gYi-2wu-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <s9yiu-5HK-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Samsung Electronics |
On 2016년 08월 24일 13:43, Stephen Boyd wrote: > On 08/23, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote: >> On 08/23/2016 04:35 AM, Chanwoo Choi wrote: >> I checked stripped object files and it seems with the patch there >> is some saving of the kernel image size. Exactly 784 bytes, which >> makes zImage smaller by 480 bytes. >> >> The patch increases .init.rodata section size by 780 bytes but >> decreases .init.text section size by 1564 bytes. Looks like >> a static initializer is cheaper. >> >> $ ls -l drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5260.o >> >> < -rw-rw-r-- 1 snawrocki snawrocki 29100 Aug 23 11:35 drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5260.o >> --- >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 snawrocki snawrocki 28316 Aug 23 11:32 drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos5260.o >> >> >> The section size differences are as below: >> 15c15 >> < 3 .init.text 000006b8 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**2 >> --- >>> 3 .init.text 0000009c 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**2 >> 25c25 >> < 8 .init.rodata 00003f6c 00000000 00000000 00002f20 2**2 >> --- >>> 8 .init.rodata 00004278 00000000 00000000 00002904 2**2 >> >> So the saving is rather insignificant but the patch doesn't make >> things worse and I'd say it might be worth applying. >> > > Sounds good. This sort of information should be in the commit > text though. Talking about const doesn't make any sense to me. Do you mean that 'const' is initconst secion? If possible, could you explain the anything why you don't make sense about 'const'? -- Best Regards, Chanwoo Choi
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[PATCH 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5260: Move struct samsung_cmu_info to init section Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> - 2016-08-22 05:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5260: Move struct samsung_cmu_info to init section Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-08-23 03:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5260: Move struct samsung_cmu_info to init section Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> - 2016-08-23 04:40 +0200
Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5260: Move struct samsung_cmu_info to init section Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com> - 2016-08-23 12:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5260: Move struct samsung_cmu_info to init section Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-08-24 06:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5260: Move struct samsung_cmu_info to init section Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> - 2016-08-24 10:40 +0200
Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5260: Move struct samsung_cmu_info to init section Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-08-25 07:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: samsung: exynos5260: Move struct samsung_cmu_info to init section Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> - 2016-08-25 09:50 +0200
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