Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761135AbXIKVDi (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:03:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751108AbXIKVDa (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:03:30 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55462 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894AbXIKVD3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:03:29 -0400 To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux References: <200709112105.34301.vda.linux@googlemail.com> From: Andi Kleen Date: 11 Sep 2007 23:03:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200709112105.34301.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 12 Denys Vlasenko writes: > > ? ?text ? ?data ? ? bss ? ? dec ? ? hex filename > 5159478 1005139 ?406784 6571401 ?644589 linux-2.6.23-rc4.org/vmlinux > 5131822 ?996090 ?401439 6529351 ?63a147 linux-2.6.23-rc4.gc/vmlinux > > In this particular case, 402 objects were discarded, saving 42 kb. I wonder how many of those are 100% unused on all configurations? That could be an useful janitor task to clean up -Andi - 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/