Olof Johansson writes: > Not using the ppc-specific WARN_ON/BUG_ON constructs actually saves about > 4K text on a ppc64_defconfig. The main reason seems to be that prepping > the arguments to the conditional trap instructions is more work than > just doing a compare and branch.
It might be more instructions but it takes fewer cycles, I would expect. Do you have the actual instruction sequences to compare? Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
