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Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 02/17] powerpc/mm/slice: Update the function prototype
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:18:01 +0530
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On Wednesday 29 March 2017 09:13 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:06:48AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> This avoid copying the slice_mask struct as function return value
>
> Did you do before/after comparisons of kernel text size?
>
> Paul.
>
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
10114479        5023602 1071772 16209853         f757bd 
./vmlinux.beforepatch
10114351        5023602 1071772 16209725         f7573d ./vmlinux.afterpatch

-aneesh