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Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: properly mark init functions

 

On Thu Aug 19, 2010 at 10:24:00AM +0200, Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/19/2010 02:28 AM, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> > On Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 05:24:05PM +0200, Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Some ecryptfs init functions are not prefixed by __init and thus not
> >> freed after initialization. This patch saved about 1kB in ecryptfs
> >> module.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> > 
> > Thanks Jerome - We could also get away with marking
> > ecryptfs_init_kmem_caches() and do_sysfs_registration() with __init,
> > right?
> > 
> > Tyler
> > 
> 
> I guess we could. But it doesn't really matter, these are static functions which
> are called from only one place, so they're inlined anyway. I don't know what the
> convention is in such case.
> 

Good point - this has been applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6.git#next

Thanks,
Tyler



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