From b6472776816af1ed52848c93d26e3edb3b17adab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:22:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] modules: no need to align .modinfo strings
gcc aligns strings as a performance consideration for those cases where
strings are being used a lot.
Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to save
some space.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/moduleparam.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 9d2f1837b3d8..112adf8bd47d 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
#define __module_cat(a,b) ___module_cat(a,b)
#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \
static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[] \
- __used \
- __attribute__((section(".modinfo"),unused)) = __stringify(tag) "=" info
+ __used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1))) \
+ = __stringify(tag) "=" info
#else /* !MODULE */
#define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)
#endif
--
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