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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

  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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