| To: | David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table. |
| From: | Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> |
| Date: | Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:59:20 +0200 |
| Cc: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> |
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 02:59:55PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
>
> Using this build-time sort saves time booting as we don't have to burn
> cycles sorting the exception table.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> ---
> scripts/.gitignore | 1 +
> scripts/Makefile | 1 +
> scripts/sortextable.c | 273
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> scripts/sortextable.h | 168 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
If there is only a single file including the .h file - then there is no gain.
Just fold it into the .c file.
Sam
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