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From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:21:30 +0100
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:

> I don't think that helps? I'm on about the size of the kernel "Image" file, not
> the runtime memory footprint.
> 
> ... unless you mean doing that at compiler time?

Oh, when Peter said: "This saves, on an x86_64-defconfig + FTRACE,
23975*4 ~= 94K of permanent storage." I was thinking of "storage in
memory". I wasn't thinking of disk space on the host machine.

But sure, this is fine with me. I'll have to take a deeper look at the
patch though.

-- Steve