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The runtime constant feature removes all the users of these variables, allowing the compiler to optimize them away. It's quite difficult to extract their values from the kernel text, and the memory saved by removing them is tiny, and it was never the point of this optimization. Since the dentry_hashtable is a core data structure, it's valuable for debugging tools to be able to read it easily. For instance, scripts built on drgn, like the dentrycache script[1], rely on it to be able to perform diagnostics on the contents of the dcache. Annotate it as used, so the compiler doesn't discard it. Link:3afc56146f/drgn_tools/dentry.py (L325-L355)[1] Fixes:e3c92e8171("runtime constants: add x86 architecture support") Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.