linux-kernel - [PATCH] no need to align .modinfo strings

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Date:	Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:24:40 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	<rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	"Michal Marek" <mmarek@...e.cz>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] no need to align .modinfo strings

Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to
save some space.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>

---
 include/linux/moduleparam.h |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.36-rc3/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ 2.6.36-rc3-modinfo-align/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 #define __module_cat(a,b) ___module_cat(a,b)
 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)					  \
 static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[]				  \
-  __used								  \
-  __attribute__((section(".modinfo"),unused)) = __stringify(tag) "=" info
+  __used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1)))	  \
+  = __stringify(tag) "=" info
 #else  /* !MODULE */
 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)
 #endif



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