linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i386 : Make arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup

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Date:	Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:11:34 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, pavel@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 : Make arch/x86/kernel/acpi/wakeup_32.S use a
	separate text section


* Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com> wrote:

> # size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 4619942  422838  458752 5501532  53f25c vmlinux.before
> 4610534  422838  458752 5492124  53cd9c vmlinux.after
> 
> This saves 9408 bytes

that's nice! Applied it to x86.git. I'm wondering, do we have other such 
cases? page alignment requirements are quite often for various CPU data 
structures.

	Ingo
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