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. Another potentially useful plugin, especially for embedded systems, would be to compress any string literal marked with __attribute__((format(printf, string-index,))) and decompress the compressed format on the stack in lib/vsprintf.c vsnprintf just before use. I've started to experiment with that. -- 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
