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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=43CE73A0.76F0.0078.0@novell.com \
--to=jbeulich@novell.com \
--cc=ak@suse.de \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=paulus@samba.org \
--cc=tony.luck@intel.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.