svn commit: r324609 - head/sys/sys
Ian Lepore
ian at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 13 20:54:36 UTC 2017
On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 20:31 +0000, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> Author: mjg
> Date: Fri Oct 13 20:31:56 2017
> New Revision: 324609
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/324609
>
> Log:
> mtx: change MTX_UNOWNED from 4 to 0
>
> The value is spread all over the kernel and zeroing a register is
> cheaper/shorter than setting it up to an arbitrary value.
>
> Reduces amd64 GENERIC-NODEBUG .text size by 0.4%.
>
> MFC after: 1 week
>
If you MFC this, won't that break the ABI for modules compiled against
earlier versions of the branch?
Also, won't this trigger a need to recompile out of tree modules such
as video drivers, virtualbox, etc? Does that need an UPDATING entry?
-- Ian
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