On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 09:35 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > (adding Mathias Krause who did something similar via macros in 2014) > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/22/149 > > On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 13:34 +0200, Emese Revfy wrote: > > > > I would like to introduce the initify gcc plugin. The kernel already > > has > > a mechanism to free up code and data memory that is only used during > > kernel > > or module initialization. > > This plugin will teach the compiler to find more such code and data > > that > > can be freed after initialization. It reduces memory usage. > > The initify gcc plugin can be useful for embedded systems. > What happens to string deduplication when one string > is in an init function and the same string is also used > in a non-init function in the same compilation unit? > > foo.c > > __init void initfunc(void) > { > pr_info("%s: I'm here\n", __func__); > } > > void runtimefunc(void) > { > pr_info("I'm here: %s\n", __func__); > } > > In what section does the string "I'm here: %s\n" get placed > or does it get placed into multiple sections? Sorry, Joe can't type. That was meant to be the identical string in both functions. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
