On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:31:55PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > 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... I say go for it. greg k-h -- 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
