From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules as shared objects
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:36:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021123203647.A1092@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211240116.RAA19023@adam.yggdrasil.com>; from adam@yggdrasil.com on Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:16:32PM -0800
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:16:32PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any other ultimate benefit to your change.
I think the main benefit is leaving some of the hard bits
wrt linking to the user-space linker. Doesn't affect x86,
but it does affect at least alpha and ia64.
> So, if you adopt a policy that the .init section will be loaded
> contiguously ...
Well, due to the way shared libraries are constructed, the
.init sections *must* be loaded contiguously no matter what.
The question is, how to free that memory.
> I should also check and see if kmalloc returns pointers in the 4MB
> kernel huge page on x86, which would improve TLB usage.
I believe it does. This decision must be left to the per-arch
allocation routine though.
r~
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2002-11-24 1:16 [PATCH] modules as shared objects Adam J. Richter
2002-11-24 4:36 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
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2002-11-23 22:01 Richard Henderson
2002-11-25 1:10 ` Rusty Russell
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