Hi Andi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:15:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > You only pay the space cost if you use it, similar to the nls tables. > > The way Linux module loading works these things are loaded by default, > not when someone needs it. > > So no, you (or rather every unfortunate Linux XFS user) would pay it always, > unless you black list the module or rebuild the kernel. The suggestion to use symbol_get was made in response to the initial post of the series. In my testing the normalization module did not load until I attempted to mount a filesystem which required it. Seems to work ok. See patch 10, "xfs: implement demand load of utf8norm.ko". Thanks, Ben -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
