Hi Tejun, On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c > +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c > @@ -2196,6 +2227,7 @@ out: > */ > void console_unlock(void) > { > + static char ext_text[CONSOLE_EXT_LOG_MAX]; Can you please a) make this feature optional, b) (de)allocate this buffer dynamically when the first/last console with CON_EXTENDED set is (un)registered? Your patch is at the top of the bloat-o-meter output (against v4.1): add/remove: 388/154 grow/shrink: 1309/269 up/down: 92366/-44878 (47488) function old new delta ext_text - 8192 +8192 do_con_trol - 4824 +4824 path_openat 1416 4224 +2808 tvec_bases 4 2080 +2076 ip_do_fragment - 1824 +1824 unix_stream_read_generic - 1452 +1452 ext4_ext_shift_extents - 1350 +1350 ext4_insert_range - 1174 +1174 bpf_prepare_filter 264 1430 +1166 proc_pid_cmdline_read - 1020 +1020 and unlike the others, this one is not that difficult to fix. Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html