This is an implementation of a suggestion made by Chris Torek:
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Something else I noticed in passing: the EX and EX_LD/EX_ST macros
scattered throughout the various .S files make a fair bit of .fixup
code, all of which does the same thing. At the cost of one symbol
in copy_in_user.S, you could just have one common two-instruction
retl-and-mov-1 fixup that they all share.
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The following is with a defconfig build:
text data bss dec hex filename
3972767 344024 584449 4901240 4ac978 vmlinux.orig
3968887 344024 584449 4897360 4aba50 vmlinux
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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