On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 06:41:33PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > The correct mailing list is still [email protected] Noted. > On Thursday 01 January 1970 01:00, Sergey Vlasov wrote: > > Currently CONFIG_REORDER uses -ffunction-sections for all code; > > however, creating a separate section for each function is not useful > > for modules and just adds bloat. > > You mean the ELF files are larger? Yes, and all these sections are then reported in sysfs (BTW, what programs really use /sys/module/*/sections/* files?). > .text/.data size shouldn't > change in theory. Actually, it does change by a small amount for some reason - even increases by about 100 bytes in some cases; however, I suppose that the size reported by /proc/modules and lsmod is more important, and it decreases: before: ext3 138896 4 jbd 58152 1 ext3 mbcache 10248 1 ext3 sata_nv 11140 13 libata 75928 1 sata_nv sd_mod 21912 6 scsi_mod 155824 3 usb_storage,libata,sd_mod ide_disk 17536 0 ide_generic 1664 0 [permanent] amd74xx 15280 0 [permanent] generic 5892 0 [permanent] ide_core 150624 6 ide_cd,usb_storage,ide_disk,ide_generic,amd74xx,generic after: ext3 129040 4 jbd 53672 1 ext3 mbcache 9608 1 ext3 sata_nv 10756 13 libata 69784 1 sata_nv sd_mod 20760 6 scsi_mod 145200 3 usb_storage,libata,sd_mod ide_disk 16384 0 ide_generic 1664 0 [permanent] amd74xx 14896 0 [permanent] generic 5764 0 [permanent] ide_core 140768 6 ide_cd,usb_storage,ide_disk,ide_generic,amd74xx,generic
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