linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Move sysctl check into debugging section and don't make it default y

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Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:57:18 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, torvalds@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move sysctl check into debugging section and don't make it default y

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> writes:
> 
> >> What is a feature change like this doing coming in after the
> >> merge window?
> >
> > I considered it a "anti bloat bugfix". Adding 30k of 
> > object code to allno was a bit too much. 
> 
> 30k???  Which platform are you testing on ia64????
> 
> On x86_64 it is 8k text and 8k data.

x86-64 with 4.1. See the size output in the original commit.

  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  36243       0       0   36243    8d93 kernel/sysctl_check.o

36k actually.

-Andi
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