Re: [PATCH 06/28] ata: use COMMAND_LINE_SIZE for ata_force_param_buf[] size

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Fri Feb 07 2020 - 09:17:38 EST



On 1/29/20 6:18 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 02:33:21PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> Use COMMAND_LINE_SIZE instead PAGE_SIZE for ata_force_param_buf[]
>> size as libata parameters buffer doesn't need to be bigger than
>> the command line buffer.
>>
>> For many architectures this results in decreased libata-core.o
>> size (COMMAND_LINE_SIZE varies from 256 to 4096 while the minimum
>> PAGE_SIZE is 4096).
>>
>> Code size savings on m68k arch using atari_defconfig:
>>
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> before:
>> 41064 4413 40 45517 b1cd drivers/ata/libata-core.o
>> after:
>> 41064 573 40 41677 a2cd drivers/ata/libata-core.o
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This looks like a good start, so:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Thanks.

> But evne COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is quite a lot of overhead. Can we maybe add
> a new Kconfig option to optionally disable the libata.force= entirely?

I've added patch making "libata.force=" optional in v2
(disabling "libata.force=" saves us additional 3kB).

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics