Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756349Ab3HFR6J (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 13:58:09 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:27039 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756133Ab3HFR6H (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 13:58:07 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=KJ7Y/S5o c=1 sm=0 a=Sro2XwOs0tJUSHxCKfOySw==:17 a=Drc5e87SC40A:10 a=pFOAptgLnqcA:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=meVymXHHAAAA:8 a=KGjhK52YXX0A:10 a=pvQ05lsfB1wA:10 a=2pTKvNz8ocyA7Tma9CcA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=Xau-knwm0hUA:10 a=Sro2XwOs0tJUSHxCKfOySw==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 67.255.60.225 Message-ID: <1375811885.25420.44.camel@gandalf.local.home> Subject: Re: [RFC] gcc feature request: Moving blocks into sections From: Steven Rostedt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: LKML , gcc , Ingo Molnar , Mathieu Desnoyers , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , David Daney , Behan Webster , Peter Zijlstra , Herbert Xu Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:58:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <1375721715.22073.80.camel@gandalf.local.home> <1375725328.22073.101.camel@gandalf.local.home> <1375727977.22073.112.camel@gandalf.local.home> <1375798783.25420.30.camel@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1038 Lines: 25 On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 10:48 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So I wonder if this is a "ok, let's not bother, it's not worth the > pain" issue. 128 bytes of offset is very small, so there probably > aren't all that many cases that would use it. OK, I'll forward port the original patches for the hell of it anyway, and post it as an RFC. Let people play with it if they want, and if it seems like it would benefit the kernel perhaps we can reconsider. It shouldn't be too hard to do the forward port, and if we don't ever take it, it would be a fun exercise regardless ;-) Actually, the first three patches should be added as they are clean ups and safety checks. Nothing to do with the actual 2-5 byte jumps. They were lost due to their association with the complex patches. :-/ -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/