From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO
Date: 20 Jan 2006 07:13:57 +0100
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:13:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060120061357.GA62569@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17360.27469.840898.303811@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:47:09PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Andi Kleen writes:
>
> > The module loader should be discarding these sections on most architectures
> > because there is nothing that needs them and it's just a waste of memory
> > to store them.
>
> Apparently the module loader loads all sections marked SHF_ALLOC,
> reasonably enough.
>
> Why would we want the unwind tables in the .ko but not in kernel
> memory? Isn't the point of this so that we can add an in-kernel
> unwinder?
For most people so far it was for kgdb where they would be needed
on disk only.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-20 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 12:59 [PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO Jan Beulich
2006-01-14 12:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-14 14:03 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-01-16 7:36 ` Jan Beulich
2006-01-16 7:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-18 11:48 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-01-18 15:18 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-18 15:58 ` Jan Beulich
2006-01-18 16:11 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-18 16:48 ` Jan Beulich
2006-01-20 4:47 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-01-20 6:13 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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