Shrinks my vmlinux by an astonishing 28k.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3038796  589890  150612 3779298b  39aae2 vmlinux.before
3009761  590107  150612 3750480  393a50 vmlinux.after

Thanks to Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> for performing
the analysis.