Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:33:02 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] Generic BUG handling. |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > For my x86_64 usualconfig .text (from objdump --headers) went from > 0x002c55c7 down to 0x002c2bda, which is 10.5k saved. > > According to /usr/bin/size, vmlinux got bigger: > > box:/usr/src/25> size vmlinux > text data bss dec hex filename > 3597448 716340 510456 4824244 499cb4 vmlinux-before > 3640604 716228 510456 4867288 4a44d8 vmlinux-after >
Good, that's what we'd hope for. It's going to be a bigger overall than the previous i386 code, because it's now saving away the EIP as well as filename* and line for each BUG.
> But that's because size(1) is too blunt an instrument: the sum of .text and > the new bug section got larger. >
size -A will tell you everything you ever wanted to know.
> I think we need to thank the powerpc guys, then take away their function > name printing ;) >
I think so...
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