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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 vsyscall DSO implementation
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:10:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304250210.h3P2AoU12348@magilla.sf.frob.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jeff Garzik's message of  Thursday, 24 April 2003 21:49:33 -0400 <3EA8942D.4050201@pobox.com>

> We already embed a cpio archive into __initdata space.  What about 
> putting the images in there, and either copying the data out of 
> initramfs, or, directly referencing the pages that store each image?

It doesn't matter to me, but I don't see the benefit to doing that.  It's
rather unlike what initramfs is used for now and would need a bunch of
extra code to accomplish something very simple.  

The DSO images are not stored page-aligned and padded in the kernel image,
so the pages can't be used directly.  Storing them that way would use more
space in the kernel image on disk, and then you'd want to free initdata
page containing the unused one.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-25  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-25  1:10 [PATCH] i386 vsyscall DSO implementation Roland McGrath
2003-04-25  1:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-25  2:10   ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2003-04-25 16:21     ` David Mosberger
2003-04-25 21:00       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-25 21:17         ` David Mosberger
2003-04-25 21:20           ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-25 21:50             ` David Mosberger
2003-04-26 22:06       ` Roland McGrath
2003-04-26 17:15 ` Ulrich Drepper

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