From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>, "Magnus Damm" <magnus@valinux.co.jp>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <patches@x86-64.org>,
<Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [18/19] x86_64: Overlapping program headers in physical addr space fix
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:08:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <453D050D.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061023144145.GB15532@in.ibm.com>
>I think plain "init" also does not reflect the correct name as this section
>is also mapping .data.init_task, .data.page_aligned and .data_nosave, which
>will probably never get freed. It maps smp alternatives sections which will
>not be freed if CPU_HOTPLUG is enabled. It also maps .bss, which will never
>get freed.
>
>I think, the sections which are not being freed, should be moved up and
>made part of 'data' segment. Then create a segment 'init' for all the init
>text/data and finally create another segment say 'bss' to map bss at the
>end. How does this sound?
Superb. Though I guess .bss needs no extra segment, it should simply
be the last thing in the data segment.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-23 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [1/19] x86_64: Update defconfig Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [2/19] i386: " Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [3/19] x86_64: x86_64 hot-add memory srat.c fix Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [4/19] x86_64: typo in __assign_irq_vector when updating pos for vector and offset Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [5/19] i386: fix .cfi_signal_frame copy-n-paste error Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [6/19] x86_64: Fix for arch/x86_64/pci/Makefile CFLAGS Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [7/19] x86_64: fix page align in e820 allocator Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [8/19] x86: Use -maccumulate-outgoing-args Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 17:18 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-21 18:20 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [9/19] x86_64: Speed up dwarf2 unwinder Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [10/19] x86_64: x86_64 add NX mask for PTE entry Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [11/19] i386: Fix fake return address Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 18:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-10-21 18:14 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 18:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [12/19] x86_64: Fix ENOSYS in system call tracing Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [13/19] x86_64: Revert interrupt backlink changes Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [14/19] i386: Disable nmi watchdog on all ThinkPads Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 17:24 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-21 18:11 ` [patches] " Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 18:14 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-21 18:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [16/19] x86: Revert new unwind kernel stack termination Andi Kleen
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [18/19] x86_64: Overlapping program headers in physical addr space fix Andi Kleen
2006-10-23 7:20 ` [patches] " Jan Beulich
2006-10-23 14:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-10-23 15:02 ` Ian Campbell
2006-10-23 16:08 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2006-10-21 16:51 ` [PATCH] [19/19] x86_64: Revert timer routing behaviour back to 2.6.16 state Andi Kleen
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