Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:36:24 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Drop exported symbols list if !modules |
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On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:30:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 09:07, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:45:01AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 06:55, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > > Drop ksyms if we've built without module support > > > > > > > > > > From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> > > > > > Subject: Re: 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 > > > > > > > > Other than saving a little compile time, does this actually do anything? > > > > > > > > I'm not against it, I just don't think I see the point. > > > > > > Well it obviously saves memory and image size too; > > > > Please measure it. It's not obvious to me at all. > > Miniscule savings > > text data bss dec hex filename > 3221815 862456 0 4084271 3e522f vmlinux-before > 3221591 862456 0 4084047 3e514f vmlinux-after
I was seeing this when I added it to my tree circa 2.6.1:
701262 58619 15616 775497 bd549 vmlinux before 700530 58619 15616 774765 bd26d vmlinux after
..which I would expect to grow with code size.
On the other hand, I'm now seeing:
0 0 0 0 0 arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.o
So something's changed.
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