Moving these arrays into static storage shrinks the kernel a bit: text data bss dec hex filename 723 112 64 899 383 lib/string_helpers.o 516 272 64 852 354 lib/string_helpers.o Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>