Re: [PATCH 06/28] ata: use COMMAND_LINE_SIZE for ata_force_param_buf[] size

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jan 29 2020 - 12:18:24 EST


On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 02:33:21PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Use COMMAND_LINE_SIZE instead PAGE_SIZE for ata_force_param_buf[]
> size as libata parameters buffer doesn't need to be bigger than
> the command line buffer.
>
> For many architectures this results in decreased libata-core.o
> size (COMMAND_LINE_SIZE varies from 256 to 4096 while the minimum
> PAGE_SIZE is 4096).
>
> Code size savings on m68k arch using atari_defconfig:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> before:
> 41064 4413 40 45517 b1cd drivers/ata/libata-core.o
> after:
> 41064 573 40 41677 a2cd drivers/ata/libata-core.o
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This looks like a good start, so:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

But evne COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is quite a lot of overhead. Can we maybe add
a new Kconfig option to optionally disable the libata.force= entirely?