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Message-ID: <effe3cde7b1f188427c42c476f5a96251d837416.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 31 May 2020 15:11:27 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        rjw@...ysocki.net, pavel@....cz, len.brown@...el.com,
        Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: power: swap: mark a function as __init to save
 some memory

(adding Dan Carpenter)

On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 23:00 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> 'swsusp_header_init()' is only called via 'core_initcall'.
> It can be marked as __init to save a few bytes of memory.

Hey Dan

smatch has a full function calling tree right?

Can smatch find unmarked functions called only by __init
functions so those unmarked functions can be appropriately
marked with __init like the below?

> ---
>  kernel/power/swap.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/power/swap.c b/kernel/power/swap.c
> index ca0fcb5ced71..01e2858b5fe3 100644
> --- a/kernel/power/swap.c
> +++ b/kernel/power/swap.c
> @@ -1590,7 +1590,7 @@ int swsusp_unmark(void)
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> -static int swsusp_header_init(void)
> +static int __init swsusp_header_init(void)
>  {
>  	swsusp_header = (struct swsusp_header*) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!swsusp_header)

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