From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: "Andreas Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <tony.luck@intel.com>,
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:58:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43CE73A0.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060118151816.GA82365@muc.de>
>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.
>
>[IA64 might be an exception because they have a kernel level unwinder]
>
>So it would be best to change the module loader to do this I guess.
But that's why this is a config option: You can prevent the data from being created in the first place if you know you
won't need it. For nlkd, adding code to discard these sections despite CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO would only make for more
differences, because I'd then have to undo this discarding.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-18 15:58 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 [this message]
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
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