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Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's excepti

from [David Daney] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel's exception table.
From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:49:59 -0700
Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>, 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>
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On 04/20/2012 07:59 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

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>
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  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.
s/single file/single site/, and I am in complete agreement. However this patch doesn't meet that criterion. In this particular case, there is more to the patch than just the diffstat. 

David Daney
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