Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:55:00 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/07] kernel.h string cleanup | From | Dave Young <> |
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 17:55 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > >> Spliting is necessary from my point of view. > >> with the patches applied: >> >> time: >> real 15m16.504s >> user 12m51.866s >> sys 1m39.700s >> >> vmlinux .text size: 003bfcd2 >> >> without the patches applied* >> time: >> real 15m20.518s >> user 12m54.120s >> sys 1m40.190s >> >> vmlinux .text size: 003bfcea > > Why the change in text size? If moving stuff around in headers affects > the final result, I'm thinking that you did something wrong.
trace/printk/panic/string stuff just being moved to another head file, then included in kernel.h, so there shouldn't be difference with before.
So I guess it's the hexdump/int_sqrt head file which are removed from kernel.h? > > The merge for x86 did a lot of file manipulation, but Thomas and Ingo > would always test that the binary result was the same. If the binary > result is different, then something went wrong with the file > manipulations. > > -- Steve > > > >
-- Regards dave
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