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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: minios-devel@lists.xenproject.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mini-os: use -m elf_i386 for final linking
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:10:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200416131057.yvrsijib7aqjzc4s@function> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71871753-d4e5-9afc-9637-479f5ecb2776@suse.com>

Jürgen Groß, le jeu. 16 avril 2020 14:58:34 +0200, a ecrit:
>  Specifically, 64bit emulation appears to include "align primary
>  sections to 2M so your OS can make better use of superpages even when
>  mmap()ing", with no way I can spot to override this in the linker
>  file."

Ok, I see, I had indeed guessed that the 2M rounding probably had
something to do with 2M pages.

I'm afraid it may bite us back some day, but I'd say it is fine enough
for now to include it, so 

Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

with the information quoted above put in the changelog, please :)

Samuel


      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-16 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-16 12:27 [PATCH] mini-os: use -m elf_i386 for final linking Juergen Gross
2020-04-16 12:46 ` Samuel Thibault
2020-04-16 12:58   ` Jürgen Groß
2020-04-16 13:10     ` Samuel Thibault [this message]

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