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SubjectRe: [patch V181 35/54] x86/entry: Align entry text section to PMD boundary
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:35:38PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>
> The (irq)entry text must be visible in the user space page tables. To allow
> simple PMD based sharing, make the entry text PMD aligned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

With my config, this patch adds 2.5M (+~25%) to the kernel text size.
Is there a more granular way to achieve this?

--
Josh

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