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Re: [RFC 13/13] m68k: mac: convert to generic clockevent

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2020-10-25 12:46:09
Also in: linux-m68k, lkml

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:24 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
[off-list ref] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 9:52 AM Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 2:55 AM Finn Thain [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
quoted
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 3:19 AM Finn Thain [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
That configuration still produces the same 5 KiB of bloat. I see that
kernel/time/Kconfig has this --

# Core internal switch. Selected by NO_HZ_COMMON / HIGH_RES_TIMERS. This is
# only related to the tick functionality. Oneshot clockevent devices
# are supported independent of this.
config TICK_ONESHOT
        bool

But my question was really about both kinds of dead code (oneshot device
support and oneshot tick support). Anyway, after playing with the code for
a bit I don't see any easy way to reduce the growth in text size.
Did you look more deeply into where those 5KB are? Is this just
the code in kernel/time/{clockevents,tick-common}.c and the
added platform specific bits, or is there something more?
I suppose the sysfs interface and the clockevents_update_freq()
logic are not really needed on m68k, but it wouldn't make much
sense to split those out either.

How does the 5KB bloat compare to the average bloat we get
from one release to the next? Geert has been collecting statistics
for this.
It would be a fair share of the typical increase of ca. 30 KiB per
kernel release. Still, it would be lost in the noise of the increase for
v5.10-rc1:

    add/remove: 1200/455 grow/shrink: 1419/821 up/down: 468970/-93714 (375256)
    Function                                     old     new   delta
    _printk_rb_static_infos                        -  180224 +180224
    write_buf                                   8192   32768  +24576
    _printk_rb_static_descs                        -   24576  +24576
    HUF_decompress4X4_usingDTable_internal         -    5664   +5664
    HUF_decompress4X2_usingDTable_internal         -    5006   +5006
    __ext4_ioctl                                   -    4774   +4774
    sock_ops_convert_ctx_access                 3840    8462   +4622
    ZSTD_decompressSequences                       -    3100   +3100
FTR, 3.9 KiB reclaimed by upgrading from gcc 8.4.0 in Ubuntu 18.04LTS to
gcc 9.3.0 in Ubuntu 20.04LTS.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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                                -- Linus Torvalds

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