Using kstrdup_const, thus reusing .rodata when possible, saves around 2 kB
of runtime memory on my laptop/.config combination.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
struct ddebug_table {
struct list_head link;
- char *mod_name;
+ const char *mod_name;
unsigned int num_ddebugs;
struct _ddebug *ddebugs;
};
const char *name)
{
struct ddebug_table *dt;
- char *new_name;
+ const char *new_name;
dt = kzalloc(sizeof(*dt), GFP_KERNEL);
if (dt == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
- new_name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_name = kstrdup_const(name, GFP_KERNEL);
if (new_name == NULL) {
kfree(dt);
return -ENOMEM;
static void ddebug_table_free(struct ddebug_table *dt)
{
list_del_init(&dt->link);
- kfree(dt->mod_name);
+ kfree_const(dt->mod_name);
kfree(dt);
}