Re: [pull request] getting rid of __cpuinit

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Oct 25 2008 - 10:00:38 EST


On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:59:25 +0200
Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > text data bss dec
> > hex filename 4618096 1358684 848588
> > 6825368 682598 vmlinux.before 4619965
> > 1356908 848716 6825589 682675 vmlinux.after
>
> The interesting number here is the size of the cpuinit/cpuexit
> sections. cpuinit sections are discarded after init and cpuexit
> sections are discarded if you do not use modules.
>
> Can you share these numbers with us?

those sections don't actually exist because of the linker script
magic...


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