From: jlnance@intrex.net
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:02:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020701130249.A2203@tricia.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207011612.JAA01302@adam.yggdrasil.com>; from adam@yggdrasil.com on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:12:56AM -0700
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:12:56AM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> As an extereme illustration, imagine a module with 4095 bytes
> of non-init data and 2 bytes of init data. With the .init section loaded,
> the module will occupy two pages. Freeing the .init section will free
> an entire page, making 4096 bytes available to the system, even though
> only two bytes were in the .init section.
Surly we can do better and just not generate .init sections for modules
where the size would be smaller than a page. Is binutils capable of doing
this given the proper linker script?
Thanks,
Jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-01 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-01 16:12 Adam J. Richter
2002-07-01 17:02 ` jlnance [this message]
2002-07-03 5:01 ` Keith Owens
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2002-07-11 5:44 Adam J. Richter
2002-07-11 5:07 Adam J. Richter
2002-07-04 17:24 Adam J. Richter
2002-07-11 2:48 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-11 2:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-07-11 3:30 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-11 5:13 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-11 6:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-11 7:14 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-11 10:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-11 17:37 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-11 18:01 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-11 18:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-17 18:16 ` bill davidsen
2002-07-17 19:35 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-11 18:28 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-11 19:48 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-11 20:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-11 23:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-12 1:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-12 3:53 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-12 6:49 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-07-12 11:30 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-12 0:00 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-12 6:57 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-07-19 0:19 ` Richard Gooch
2002-07-22 16:29 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-23 4:37 ` Richard Gooch
2002-07-11 4:02 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-11 4:19 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-11 4:46 ` Cort Dougan
2002-07-11 2:55 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-11 3:01 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-11 5:16 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-03 15:53 Adam J. Richter
2002-07-03 17:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-07-03 18:46 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-07-03 23:25 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-03 23:09 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-03 7:31 Adam J. Richter
2002-07-03 8:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-07-03 12:27 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-03 14:10 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-01 17:20 Adam J. Richter
2002-07-01 8:45 Keith Owens
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