linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: Constify npc_kpu_profile

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Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:13:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     rikard.falkeborn@...il.com
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, jerinj@...vell.com, gakula@...vell.com,
        lcherian@...vell.com, sgoutham@...vell.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] octeontx2-af: Constify
 npc_kpu_profile_{action,cam}

From: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:15 +0200

> These are never modified, so constify them to allow the compiler to
> place them in read-only memory. This moves about 25kB to read-only
> memory as seen by the output of the size command.
> 
> Before:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  296203   65464    1248  362915   589a3 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/octeontx2_af.ko
> 
> After:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  321003   40664    1248  362915   589a3 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/octeontx2_af.ko
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@...il.com>

Applied, thank you.