Re: [PATCH] ftrace: don't increment @pos in g_start()

From: Li Zefan
Date: Sun Jun 21 2009 - 23:14:25 EST


Wang Liming wrote:
> Li Zefan wrote:
>> Li Zefan wrote:
>>> Liming Wang wrote:
>>>> how about this one?
>>>>
>>> Yeah, this should work, and cleaner than my version.
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm, the patch is cleaner in diffstat but the resulted code
>> isn't..
>>
>> After yours:
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> 14879 5480 4240 24599 6017 kernel/trace/ftrace.o
>>
>> After mine:
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> 14873 5480 4240 24593 6011 kernel/trace/ftrace.o
> Hmmm, if you prefer to smaller target size, I don't care.
> But in my system, I got the same size:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 14330 5019 104 19453 4bfd kernel/trace/ftrace.o
>
> I use objdump to compute the actual size of all modified functions:
>
> After mine:
> func size
> g_start 0x50
> g_next 0x70
>
> After yours:
> func size
> __g_next 0x70
> g_next 0x20
> g_start 0x30
>
> I used Steve git tree and commit e482f8395f215e0ad6557b2722cd9b9b308035c4.
> My gcc version is :
> gcc version 4.2.4
>
> I don't know where the difference.
>

Maybe because of different gcc versions:

# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)

The point is, I don't see how the patch you posted is better than
mine. And it's fine for me to pick up yours if it's indeed better.
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