[PATCH] small addition to <linux/init.h>

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Hi all,

please take a quick look at attached patch (IMHO it can be usefull :)

The code below is a common code pattern in Linux kernel:=20

static int __init foo(void)
{
	. . .
	printk("%s: blah blah blah\n", bar);
	. . .
}

this is bad because "blah blah blah\n" goes to .rodata section and plagues=
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the memory. With this small patch it's possibe to rewrite this fragment as:

static int __init foo(void)
{
	. . .
	printk(__init_msg("%s: blah blah blah\n"), bar);
	. . .
}

and thus "blah blah blah\n" goes to .data.init and then to bitbucket.
IMHO it can save some extra memory for us.

Best regadrs.

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Andrey Panin            | Embedded systems software engineer
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diff -ur linux.vanilla/include/linux/init.h linux/include/linux/init.h
--- linux.vanilla/include/linux/init.h	Mon May 14 15:51:20 2001
+++ linux/include/linux/init.h	Mon May 14 15:54:05 2001
@@ -155,4 +155,9 @@
 #define __devexitdata __exitdata
 #endif
=20
+#define __init_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __initdata =3D (x); msg; })
+#define __exit_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __exitdata =3D (x); msg; })
+#define __devinit_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __devinitdata =3D (x); msg; =
})
+#define __devexit_msg(x) ({ static char msg[] __devexitdata =3D (x); msg; =
})
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_INIT_H */

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