linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] move WARN

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Date:	Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:27:55 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, olof@...om.net
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] move WARN_ON() out of line


On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 22:26 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Subject: move WARN_ON() out of line
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> CC: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
> CC: Matt Meckall <mpm@...enic.com>
> 
> A quick grep shows that there are currently 1145 instances of WARN_ON
> in the kernel. Currently, WARN_ON is pretty much entirely inlined,
> which makes it hard to enhance it without growing the size of the kernel
> (and getting Andrew rightfully unhappy).
> 
> This patch build on top of Olof's patch that introduces __WARN,
> and places the slowpath out of line. It also uses Ingo's suggestion
> to not use __FUNCTION__ but to use kallsyms to do the lookup;
> this saves a ton of extra space since gcc doesn't need to store the function
> string twice now:
>
> 3936367  833603  624736 5394706  525112 vmlinux.before
> 3917508  833603  624736 5375847  520767 vmlinux-slowpath

Nice!

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

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