From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
christoph <christoph@scalex86.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly"
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:24:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506081624.41995.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A61227.9090402@didntduck.org>
On Dinsdag 07 Juni 2005 23:31, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> It doesn't really matter. .rodata isn't actually mapped read-only.
> Doing so would break up the large pages used to map the kernel.
There are some platforms that are able to have the .rodata section
of the kernel in ROM, and not all architectures support large pages,
so putting syscall_table and others into ROM could be a noticeable
advantage.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-08 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-07 18:30 [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly" christoph
2005-06-07 19:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-07 19:59 ` christoph
2005-06-07 20:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-07 21:31 ` Brian Gerst
2005-06-07 22:23 ` christoph
2005-06-07 22:54 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2005-06-08 6:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-08 17:56 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2005-06-08 10:00 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-08 10:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-08 10:20 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-08 10:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-08 11:08 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-08 14:24 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2005-06-08 12:16 ` Pavel Machek
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