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From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org,
	openrisc@lists.librecores.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] init_mm: cleanup ARCH's text/data/brk setup code
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 10:31:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210607093121.GC22278@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006eb573-5a20-1ac7-6234-338d11346a08@csgroup.eu>

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 07:48:54AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Hi Kefeng,
> 
> What you could do is to define a __weak function that architectures can
> override and call that function from mm_init() as suggested by Mike,

The problem with weak functions is that they bloat the kernel. Each
time a weak function is overriden, it becomes dead unreachable code
within the kernel image.

At some point we're probabily going to have to enable -ffunction-sections
to (hopefully) allow the dead code to be discarded.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-07  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-04  7:06 [PATCH v2 00/15] init_mm: cleanup ARCH's text/data/brk setup code Kefeng Wang
2021-06-04  7:06 ` [PATCH v2 01/15] mm: add setup_initial_init_mm() helper Kefeng Wang
2021-06-06 21:31   ` Mike Rapoport
2021-06-07  1:50     ` Kefeng Wang
2021-06-07  2:36     ` [PATCH v3] " Kefeng Wang
2021-06-04  7:06 ` [PATCH v2 14/15] sh: convert to setup_initial_init_mm() Kefeng Wang
2021-06-06 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] init_mm: cleanup ARCH's text/data/brk setup code Mike Rapoport
2021-06-07  0:55   ` Kefeng Wang
2021-06-07  5:48     ` Christophe Leroy
2021-06-07  8:30       ` Kefeng Wang
2021-06-07  9:31       ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]

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