From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id j58so1283818hsj.6 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:36:51 -0700 From: "Ulrich Drepper" Subject: Re: [PATCH prototype] [0/8] Predictive bitmaps for ELF executables In-Reply-To: <20080321172644.GG2346@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080318003620.d84efb95.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080318095715.27120788.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080318172045.GI11966@one.firstfloor.org> <20080318104437.966c10ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080319083228.GM11966@one.firstfloor.org> <20080319020440.80379d50.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080320090005.GA25734@one.firstfloor.org> <20080321172644.GG2346@one.firstfloor.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: > Concrete suggestions please. I already spelled it out. Add a new program header entry, point it to a bit array large enough to cover all loadable segments. It is not worth creating problems with this invalid extension just for old binaries. Just let those go. New binaries can automatically get the array and then there are no extra seeks, the format is well defined, etc. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org