Hi Christoph,
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 10:53 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:34:07PM +1200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Just booting to a login prompt: Quite a few with 8 bytes, some with 4 bytes
(those from the keyboard driver), the rest is 16, 24, 36 and 92 bytes (a
The 4/8 byte ones can usually be switched to just use get/put_user easily.
Yeah, that seems like the best path forward.
I'm positively surprised that getting rid of the constant size
handling shrinks the kernel by ca. 10 KiB. Probably it made sense
a long time ago (perhaps before the fixup sections were added,
if anyone still remembers?)...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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