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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Extend inline asm syntax with size spec
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 13:55 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Anyway, with the below patch, I get:
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 17385183        5064780 1953892 24403855        1745f8f defconfig-build/vmlinux
> 17385678        5064780 1953892 24404350        174617e defconfig-build/vmlinux
> 
> Which shows we inline more (look for asm_volatile for the actual
> changes).
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>  scripts/checkpatch.pl                              |  8 ++---
>  scripts/genksyms/keywords.c                        |  4 +--
>  scripts/kernel-doc                                 |  4 +--

I believe these should be excluded from the conversions.

Other than that, generic conversion by script seems a good idea.