Commit b6472776 authored Oct 26, 2010 by Jan Beulich Committed by Linus Torvalds Oct 26, 2010

modules: no need to align .modinfo strings



gcc aligns strings as a performance consideration for those cases where
strings are being used a lot.

Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to save
some space.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent a55621f1

include/linux/moduleparam.h

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
		#define __module_cat(a,b) ___module_cat(a,b)
		#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \
		static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[] \
		__used \
		__attribute__((section(".modinfo"),unused)) = __stringify(tag) "=" info
		__used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1))) \
		= __stringify(tag) "=" info
		#else /* !MODULE */
		#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)
		#endif