> Stock 2.3.11 has 32k more code and 40k more strings. That's
> ridiculous. It turns out to be the fault of the wait-queue and
> page-cache debugging macros. ld doesn't uniquify strings, so each
> occurence of CHECK_MAGIC() or BUG() is another duplicate.
So? Zack, we *still* have b0rkenness in VM.
> Add 32-byte alignment padding for every string, the increased size of
> struct wait_queue, and the code for the macros themselves, and you can
> see where the bloat is coming from.
And the point being? It's -CURRENT, ferchrissake. In pretty unstable
state. Vanilla 2.3.11 has a race in bdflush giving spontaneous reboots.
2.3.12-pre1 *seems* to fix it, but something still lurks there. Easily
removable bloat from debugging is not a problem, IMHO.
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