On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 14:47 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 27 May 2013 21:50:04 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > However, that wouldn't help much with the allocation/leak problem, > > though at least it would be easier to use. It could also *try* to re-use > > the current allocation if the new content is of smaller or equal size. > > I thought that dtc tried to aggressively save space by folding identical > strings. If you tried to reuse a property that had its contents shared > with another one, you would get interesting results I guess.
It used to be only property names, unless that has changed in recent dtc. But that's a good point, we probably want a flag in struct property like we have for nodes, indicating whether it comes from the original fdt data pool or not. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
