From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:09:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:09:21 -0400 Received: from are.twiddle.net ([64.81.246.98]:31919 "EHLO are.twiddle.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:09:20 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:15:01 -0700 From: Richard Henderson To: "David S. Miller" Cc: anton@samba.org, wli@holomorphy.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [lart] /bin/ps output Message-ID: <20021012131501.C25740@twiddle.net> Mail-Followup-To: "David S. Miller" , anton@samba.org, wli@holomorphy.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20021012035141.GC7050@krispykreme> <20021012035958.GD10722@holomorphy.com> <20021012040959.GE7050@krispykreme> <20021011.235329.116353173.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021011.235329.116353173.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:53:29PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:53:29PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > In fact, thinking about this some more, we should make the ".per_cpu" > bits emit a table entry instead of some dummy object which takes up > space. The table entry would be in the special .per_cpu > section still but be just a size value. That's more complicated. Using the linker to help out with layout is definitely helpful. If you want to omit the per-cpu area from the kernel image, then arrange for it to be .bss. r~