From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:53:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FE4B00.8080205@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602231517400.3771@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rene Herman wrote:
>> Okay. I suppose the only other option is to make "physical_start" a variable
>> passed in by the bootloader so that it could make a runtime decision? Ie,
>> place us at min(top_of_mem, 4G) if it cared to. I just grepped for
>> PHYSICAL_START and this didn't look _too_ bad.
>
> No can do. You'd have to make the kernel relocatable, and do load-time
> fixups. Very invasive.
Yes, that wasn't too smart. I believe in principe most of it _could_ be
done via some pagetable trickery though, with the kernel still at a
fixed virtual address?
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 13:19 Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 13:42 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 13:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 14:14 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 14:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-24 13:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-24 13:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-24 14:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-24 14:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 15:09 ` Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 16:00 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 16:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 16:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 16:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 16:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 17:20 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-23 18:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 18:14 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 19:03 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-23 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-24 12:43 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-23 19:23 ` Rene Herman
2006-02-23 19:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-23 19:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-23 19:48 ` Rene Herman
2006-02-23 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 19:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 20:13 ` Rene Herman
2006-02-23 20:26 ` Dave Jones
2006-02-24 2:44 ` Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2006-02-24 2:47 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 14:44 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-02-23 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 23:53 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2006-02-24 14:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-24 14:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-24 15:30 ` Rene Herman
2006-02-24 15:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-24 16:48 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-24 20:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-25 2:11 ` Folkert van Heusden
2006-02-25 8:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-24 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-24 17:57 ` Rene Herman
2006-02-24 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-07 23:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-24 14:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-24 1:38 ` Martin Bligh
2006-02-23 20:07 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-02-23 16:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-23 16:54 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-23 18:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 16:57 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-23 17:36 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2006-02-23 17:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-24 22:19 ` Tony Luck
2006-02-24 22:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
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