On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 3:51 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 64-bit platforms, pointer size and alignment are 64-bit, hence two > 4-byte holes are present before the pins and gc members of the > pinctrl_gpio_range structure. Get rid of these holes by moving the > pins pointer. > > This reduces kernel size of an arm64 Rockchip kernel by ca. 512 bytes. > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> > --- > Compile-tested only (arm/multi_v7_defconfig and arm64/defconfig). Patch applied. Do you think it'd be worth it to add a check to checkpatch to suggest to move pointers toward the end of any struct? Yours, Linus Walleij
