On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wote: > > * Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:35:43PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> > We have gotten rid of devinit markup. A recent patch of Linus' makes me >> > wonder if we similarly should get rid of cpuinit markup? >> > >> > Just as with devices, the CPU hotplug machinery has been leveraged to >> > support a number of pieces of functionality such as suspend, which means >> > that on anything but the most embedded systems this functionality is >> > likely needed anyway. >> > >> > On x86-64, for an "allyesconfig" build, the total amount of space in all >> > the .cpu* sections combined is 100K. >> >> No objection from me on removing it, it just causes problems from what I >> can tell. > > Indeed, there's a steady trickle of mis-annotated cpuinit sections, and no > real tooling to make the annotations automatic or so in most of the cases. > Manual simply does not seem to work in this case. Is anyone actively working on weeding this out? If not, it is probably one of those tree-wide kind of changes that I can volunteer to tackle... Paul. -- > > Thanks, > > Ingo > -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
