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| author | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> | 2010-10-26 14:22:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-26 16:52:13 -0700 |
| commit | b6472776816af1ed52848c93d26e3edb3b17adab (patch) | |
| tree | 16061177e89b8a958d97da231923ee24852f2f63 /include/linux/moduleparam.h | |
| parent | a55621f15bc61826969a29e111ba131a55ef45de (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b6472776816af1ed52848c93d26e3edb3b17adab.tar.gz lwn-b6472776816af1ed52848c93d26e3edb3b17adab.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/moduleparam.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/moduleparam.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h index 9d2f1837b3d8..112adf8bd47d 100644 --- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h +++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h @@ -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 |