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authorJan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>2010-10-26 14:22:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-26 16:52:13 -0700
commitb6472776816af1ed52848c93d26e3edb3b17adab (patch)
tree16061177e89b8a958d97da231923ee24852f2f63 /include/linux/moduleparam.h
parenta55621f15bc61826969a29e111ba131a55ef45de (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/moduleparam.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/moduleparam.h4
1 files 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