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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