The values stored in the length and condition fields of the alternative
tables fit into 16 bits, so we can save 4 bytes per alternative table
entry.
Since a typical 32-bit kernel has more than 3000 entries this
saves > 12k of storage on disc.

bloat-o-meter shows a reduction of -0.01% by this change:
Total: Before=10196505, After=10195529, chg -0.01%

$ ls -la vmlinux vmlinux.before
-rwxr-xr-x  14437324 vmlinux
-rwxr-xr-x  14449512 vmlinux.before
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>