From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:26 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: modules: no need to align .modinfo strings
X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~12647^2~85
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6472776816af1ed52848c93d26e3edb3b17adab;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git

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>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index 9d2f183..112adf8 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