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SubjectRe: [patch 2/2] Remove a few inlines in fs/namei.c
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:55:37 +0100 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:52:31PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Uninline may_create() and do_follow_link() and use vfs_follow_link()
> > instead of __vfs_follow_link() in __do_follow_link(). It allows to
> > slightly reduce the size of kernel code:
> >
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 1114299 118564 212992 1445855 160fdf vmlinux.old
> > 1112971 118564 212992 1444527 160aaf vmlinux
> > -1328 0 0 -1328 -530 +/-

That's a really big difference, considering whereabouts in the
kernel this is.

> > This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project and has been originally
> > written by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
>
> Absolutely not. do_follow_link() et.al. are parts of mutual recursion
> loop and we need to reduce the use of kernel *stack*.

Last time someone tried to "fix" this I suggested that we add some
comments explaining the design - why it is the way it is. And the
time before that.



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