Re: initdata for modules?

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 09:54:57AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:30:44 -0800, 
> "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:
> >	In reading include/linux/init.h, I was surprised to discover
> >that __init{,data} expands to nothing when compiling a module.
> >I was wondering if anyone is contemplating adding support for
> >__init{,data} in module loading, to reduce the memory footprints
> >of modules after they have been loaded.
> 
> It has been discussed a few times but nothing was ever done about it.

Well, I've actually implemented it few years ago and even current modutils
you maintain support that already (see runsize member of struct module and
how is it assigned). __init stuff was not stored in a separate page and was
initially vmalloced together with the whole module, the only vm addition was
a shrink for a vmalloc area where it would free some pages from the end of
the area.
It lived in sparclinux-cvs for quite some time, but Linus have not accepted
it (I've posted several times).
I can dig the patch out of sparclinux CVS if anyone is interested.

	Jakub
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