On Sat, 27/03/2011 at 13:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Just wondering, what's the before/after 'size vmlinux' effect on a 'make > defconfig' x86 kernel? Does the optimization make the kernel smaller as well, > besides making it faster? Thank you for advice. I didn't really mentioned it. So without my patch: size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 7915025 1253060 1122304 10290389 9d04d5 vmlinux And with it: size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 7919150 1251364 1122304 10292818 9d0e52 vmlinux Size increased. But I discovered that if I replace "inline" with "__always_inline" in get_order(), size will be following: size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 7914481 1249252 1122304 10286037 9cf3d5 vmlinux And this is less than with same modification in asm-general: size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 7914713 1249268 1122304 10286285 9cf4cd vmlinux With my patch and "__always_inline" instead of just "inline" size will be the smallest. Signed-off-by: Maksym Planeta <mcsim.planeta@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/getorder.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/getorder.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/getorder.h index b0c6f57..6220783 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/getorder.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/getorder.h @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static __always_inline int __get_order(unsigned long size) } /* Pure 2^n version of get_order */ -static inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size) +static __always_inline __attribute_const__ int get_order(unsigned long size) { int order; -- Thanks, Maksym Planeta -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html