Re: [PATCH 0/2] RESEND vmlinux.lds.h tweaks

[jim . cromie]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 11:09 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 04:56:35PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> > hi Greg,
> >
> > this time w/o the stale patch 2.
> >
> > These 2 patches are "no functional change", but they are a simple step
> > towards de-duplicating the repetitive columms in the __dyndbg section.
> >
> > For a DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y kernel with 5k pr_debugs/drm.debugs, the
> > footprint reduction should be ~100 KiB
>
> Cool stuff, let me add it to my tree and see what breaks!  :)
>
> greg k-h

very good, thnks.

on a rev2, I'd change _s_ _e_ macro vars,
maybe _BEGIN_, _END_, or _1ST_, _LAST_

and maybe expand the commit-msgs for more explanation.