From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Muhammad Usama Anjum <musamaanjum@gmail.com>
Cc: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>,
Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@huawei.com>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] bcache: use DEFINE_MUTEX() for mutex lock
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:56:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210429055634.GW1981@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b4b7c5cc2f19d2d77a66c0d2ce42f63692174d9.camel@gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 09:19:26PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 02:17 +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 22:02 +0800, Coly Li wrote:
> > > On 4/5/21 6:14 PM, Zheng Yongjun wrote:
> > > > mutex lock can be initialized automatically with DEFINE_MUTEX()
> > > > rather than explicitly calling mutex_init().
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@huawei.com>
> > >
> > > NACK. This is not the first time people try to "fix" this location...
> > >
> > > Using DEFINE_MUTEX() does not gain anything for us, it will generate
> > > unnecessary extra size for the bcache.ko.
> > > ines.
> >
> > How can the final binary have larger size by just static declaration?
> > By using DEFINE_MUTEX, the mutex is initialized at compile time. It'll
> > save initialization at run time and one line of code will be less also
> > from text section.
> >
> > #### with no change (dynamic initialization)
> > size drivers/md/bcache/bcache.ko
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 187792 25310 152 213254 34106 drivers/md/bcache/bcache.ko
> >
> > #### with patch applied (static initialization)
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 187751 25342 120 213213 340dd drivers/md/bcache/bcache.ko
> >
> > Module's binary size has decreased by 41 bytes with the path applied
> > (x86_64 arch).
> >
> Anybody has any thoughts on it?
>
I think you're right and the response is puzzling. But who cares? It's
a small thing. Leave it and move on.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-29 5:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-05 10:14 [PATCH -next] bcache: use DEFINE_MUTEX() for mutex lock Zheng Yongjun
2021-04-05 14:02 ` Coly Li
2021-04-05 21:17 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2021-04-28 16:19 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2021-04-29 5:56 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2021-04-29 10:05 ` Coly Li
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