On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote: > > Odd. 7.2 and 7.1 (both of which I've just compiled from source, no > special configure flags or anything) generate exactly the same (good) > code for fs/namespace.o after patching. I also tried with > CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y just in case, but that still produces > reasonable code. Oh well.
It might be configuration-dependent. I usually end up having a couple of different configurations depending on what I'm doing, one being a fairly minimal one, and one being the "allmodconfig" I use mainly for build testing. Linus