Instead of explicitly storing the entire string for each possible units, just store the thing that varies: the first character. We have to special-case the 'B' unit (index==0). This shaves about 100 bytes off of my .o file. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/string_helpers.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/string_helpers.c~string_get_size-pow2 lib/string_helpers.c --- linux-2.6.git/lib/string_helpers.c~string_get_size-pow2 2011-09-30 16:50:31.628981352 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/string_helpers.c 2011-09-30 17:04:02.211607364 -0700 @@ -8,6 +8,23 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/string_helpers.h> +static const char byte_units[] = "_KMGTPEZY"; + +static char *__units_str(enum string_size_units unit, char *buf, int index) +{ + int place = 0; + + /* index=0 is plain 'B' with no other unit */ + if (index) { + buf[place++] = byte_units[index]; + if (unit == STRING_UNITS_2) + buf[place++] = 'i'; + } + buf[place++] = 'B'; + buf[place++] = '\0'; + return buf; +} + /** * string_get_size - get the size in the specified units * @size: The size to be converted @@ -23,26 +40,19 @@ int string_get_size(u64 size, const enum string_size_units units, char *buf, int len) { - const char *units_10[] = { "B", "kB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB", - "EB", "ZB", "YB", NULL}; - const char *units_2[] = {"B", "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", "PiB", - "EiB", "ZiB", "YiB", NULL }; - const char **units_str[] = { - [STRING_UNITS_10] = units_10, - [STRING_UNITS_2] = units_2, - }; const unsigned int divisor[] = { [STRING_UNITS_10] = 1000, [STRING_UNITS_2] = 1024, }; int i, j; u64 remainder = 0, sf_cap; + char unit_buf[4]; char tmp[8]; tmp[0] = '\0'; i = 0; if (size >= divisor[units]) { - while (size >= divisor[units] && units_str[units][i]) { + while (size >= divisor[units] && (i < strlen(byte_units))) { remainder = do_div(size, divisor[units]); i++; } @@ -61,7 +71,7 @@ int string_get_size(u64 size, const enum } snprintf(buf, len, "%lld%s %s", (unsigned long long)size, - tmp, units_str[units][i]); + tmp, __units_str(units, unit_buf, i)); return 0; } diff -puN include/linux/string_helpers.h~string_get_size-pow2 include/linux/string_helpers.h _ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>