From: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 21:02:20 +0200 > The bloat seems to be coming from arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c: > > text data bss dec hex filename > 10147 13536 4335264 4358947 428323 arch/sparc/mm/init_64.o > > The cause is MAX_PHYS_ADDRESS_BITS changing from 41 to 47. Would it be > possible to make this configurable for legacy SPARCs? Manually patching > this value back to 41 seems to at least produce a bootable image (no > further testing done). That would defeat the whole point of having one kernel image that works on all sparc64 systems. This data structure must be locked into the TLB and therefore must be in the main kernel image. I'll try to look into doing things differently but it won't be done any time soon as I'm very backlogged with just networking patch review after coming home from travelling. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
