linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Put the BUG __FILE__ and __LINE_

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Message-ID: <451BF92F.1010403@goop.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:32:47 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Put the BUG __FILE__ and __LINE__ info out of line

Andrew Morton wrote:
> - We're using ten bytes of instruction cache where we could use two bytes
>   

My patch reduces it to 5, but 2 would be better.

> - If this is done right, other architectures can use the look-it-up code,
>   thus cleaning up the kernel codebase.
>
> And looky, powerpc already does this, so it'd be a matter of librarifying
> their code.
>   

I'll have a look.

    J
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