[PATCH] drm: Reduce object size of DRM_ERROR and DRM_DEBUG uses

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Fri Mar 16 12:29:02 UTC 2018


On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 08:41 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 03:02:15PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > drm_printk is used for both DRM_ERROR and DRM_DEBUG with unnecessary
> > arguments that can be removed by creating separate functins.
> > 
> > Create specific functions for these calls to reduce x86/64 defconfig
> > size by ~20k.
> > 
> > Modify the existing macros to use the specific calls.
> > 
> > new:
> > $ size -t drivers/gpu/drm/built-in.a | tail -1
> > 1876562	  44542	    995	1922099	 1d5433	(TOTALS)
> > 
> > old:
> > $ size -t drivers/gpu/drm/built-in.a | tail -1
> > 1897565	  44542	    995	1943102	 1da63e	(TOTALS)
> > 
> > Miscellanea:
> > 
> > o intel_display requires a change to use the specific calls.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
> 
> Impressed with the size of the bikeshed piled on top of this I decided to
> cut this all short by merging it.

Thanks.

There was a similar patch for the DRM_DEV_ macros
awhile ago that also reduced object code.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/9/25/247

Never applied.

Want a remerge resend?


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