ACPI: tables: avoid relocations for table signature array
On architectures that implement KASLR using the ELF native RELA relocation format (such as arm64), every absolute reference in the code incurs an overhead of 24 bytes in the .rela section. So storing a 41 element array of 4 character signature strings using an array of pointer-to-char incurs an 8x overhead (32 bytes per entry => ~1500 bytes), and given the fixed length of the entries, and the fact that the array is only used locally, it is much better to use an array of arrays here, which gets rid of the overhead entirely. While at it, make it __initconst, as it is never referenced except from __init code. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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