Re: [PATCH] Put the BUG __FILE__ and __LINE__ info out of line

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Sep 28 2006 - 12:32:54 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
- We're using ten bytes of instruction cache where we could use two bytes

My patch reduces it to 5, but 2 would be better.

- If this is done right, other architectures can use the look-it-up code,
thus cleaning up the kernel codebase.

And looky, powerpc already does this, so it'd be a matter of librarifying
their code.

I'll have a look.

J
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