It's very easy to bloat the kernel code significantly by adding code to commonly called inlines. Often these inlines start small, but later when new code is added they don't get moved out-of-line.
I wrote a new tool to account for inline bloat. Addressing selected occurrences in the top-20 of my kernel config saved about 145k. text data bss dec hex filename 14220873 2008072 1507328 17736273 10ea251 vmlinux-before-anything 14074978 2008168 1507328 17590474 10c68ca vmlinux-inline -Andi -- 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/
