From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Himanshu Aggarwal <lkml.himanshu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com>,
kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: page size change on MIPS
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:08:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110131130820.GB26217@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin6GkKeJATbafP-k9YNcSTHeT8ohDpUD2RLDZ1J@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:32:43PM +0530, Himanshu Aggarwal wrote:
> Why should the application or the toolchains depend on pagesize? I am
> not very clear on this. Can someone explain it?
To allow loading directly with mmap the executable file's layout must
be such that it's it's segments are on offsets that are a multiple of
the page size so in turn the linker must know that alignment.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-31 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-24 15:02 page size change on MIPS naveen yadav
2011-01-24 15:02 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-24 18:56 ` David Daney
2011-01-24 18:56 ` David Daney
2011-01-24 19:13 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2011-01-24 19:13 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2011-01-27 14:55 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-27 14:55 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-27 15:18 ` adnan iqbal
2011-01-27 17:44 ` David Daney
2011-01-27 17:44 ` David Daney
2011-01-28 9:18 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-28 9:18 ` naveen yadav
2011-01-28 18:48 ` David Daney
2011-01-28 18:48 ` David Daney
2011-01-30 15:02 ` Himanshu Aggarwal
2011-01-30 15:02 ` Himanshu Aggarwal
2011-01-31 13:08 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2011-02-04 3:24 ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 3:24 ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 4:16 ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 4:16 ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 17:25 ` David Daney
2011-02-04 17:25 ` David Daney
2011-02-05 13:53 ` Mulyadi Santosa
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2011-02-08 8:34 ` Mulyadi Santosa
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