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>
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Jan Beulich 2010-10-26 14:22:26 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent a55621f15b
commit b647277681
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -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