From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269799AbUJVHdr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:33:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269839AbUJVHc7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:32:59 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:61838 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269799AbUJSQtL (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:49:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:49:10 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: John Cherry , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9... (compile stats) Message-ID: <20041019164910.GJ23987@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <1098196575.4320.0.camel@cherrybomb.pdx.osdl.net> <20041019161834.GA23821@one-eyed-alien.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041019161834.GA23821@one-eyed-alien.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:18:34AM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: > These are x86-based stats, yes? I'm sure other arches will likely tease > out more... > > A lot of these seem to be related to readl/writel (readb/writeb, etc). > Those should be straightforward one-line changes, I think... perhaps a job > for more automated scripting? > > At the very least, it would be nice to post-process the data to show which > modules are the offenders (and by how much). Note that quite a few of them are already fixed, and no, not all fixes had been trivial (read: there had been real bugs found by these warnings). I'm going to do 2.6.9-bird1 once netdev situation settles down (a bunch of patches from -bird are getting merged into bk-net).