On Monday 12 October 2015 11:59:16 yalin wang wrote: > This attribute can make init data to be into .initbss section, > this will make the data to be NO_BITS in vmlinux, can shrink the > Image file size, and speed up the boot up time. > > Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@xxxxxxxxx> Do you have an estimate of how much it gains? In multi_v7_defconfig, I see a total of 3367 symbols with 406016 bytes init.data, but only 348 bytes of those are in zero-initialized symbols. Arnd -- 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