Commit b6472776816af1ed52848c93d26e3edb3b17adab

Authored by Jan Beulich
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent a55621f15b

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>

Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 2 deletions Side-by-side Diff

include/linux/moduleparam.h
... ... @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
21 21 #define __module_cat(a,b) ___module_cat(a,b)
22 22 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \
23 23 static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[] \
24   - __used \
25   - __attribute__((section(".modinfo"),unused)) = __stringify(tag) "=" info
  24 + __used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1))) \
  25 + = __stringify(tag) "=" info
26 26 #else /* !MODULE */
27 27 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)
28 28 #endif