On Sat, 2021-11-27 at 17:21 +0000, Colin Ian King wrote: > Don't populate the const array spaces on the stack but make it static > const and make the pointer an array to remove a dereference. Shrinks > object code a little too. Also clean up intent, currently it is spaces > and should be a tab. [] > diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c [] > @@ -6189,7 +6189,7 @@ static inline size_t next_token(const char **buf) > * These are the characters that produce nonzero for > * isspace() in the "C" and "POSIX" locales. > */ > - const char *spaces = " \f\n\r\t\v"; > + static const char spaces[] = " \f\n\r\t\v"; > > *buf += strspn(*buf, spaces); /* Find start of token */ > perhaps while (isspace(**buf)) (*buf)++; and not have or use spaces at all.