Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
Just place the default kobj_method inside the kobjop_desc structure.
There's no need to give these kobj_methods their own symbol. This shaves
off 10 KB of a GENERIC kernel binary.
These structures hold no information that is modified during runtime. By
marking this constant, we see approximately 600 symbols become
read-only (amd64 GENERIC). While there, also mark the kobj_method
structures generated by makeobjops.awk static. They are only referenced
by the kobjop_desc structures within the same file.
Before:
$ ls -l kernel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ed wheel 15937309 Nov 8 16:29 kernel*
$ size kernel
text data bss dec hex filename
12260854 1358468 2848832 16468154 fb48ba kernel
$ nm kernel | fgrep -c ' r '
8240
After:
$ ls -l kernel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ed wheel 15922469 Nov 8 16:25 kernel*
$ size kernel
text data bss dec hex filename
12302869 1302660 2848704 16454233 fb1259 kernel
$ nm kernel | fgrep -c ' r '
8838
