linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: properly mark init functions

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Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:24:00 +0200
From:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
To:	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@...onical.com>,
	ecryptfs-devel@...ts.launchpad.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: properly mark init functions

On 08/19/2010 02:28 AM, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> On Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 05:24:05PM +0200, Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Some ecryptfs init functions are not prefixed by __init and thus not
>> freed after initialization. This patch saved about 1kB in ecryptfs
>> module.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
>> ---
> 
> Thanks Jerome - We could also get away with marking
> ecryptfs_init_kmem_caches() and do_sysfs_registration() with __init,
> right?
> 
> Tyler
> 

I guess we could. But it doesn't really matter, these are static functions which
are called from only one place, so they're inlined anyway. I don't know what the
convention is in such case.

Jérôme
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