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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:22:04 +0000
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] mm: compaction: export some of the functions
On Monday 12 December 2011, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The bloat exists either way. I don't believe the linker strips it out so
> overall it would make more sense to depend on compaction to keep the
> vmstat counters for debugging reasons if nothing else. It's not
> something I feel very strongly about though.
There were some previous attempts to use -fgc-sections to strip out
unused functions from the kernel, but I think they were never merged
because of regressions.
Arnd
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