Re: [lart] /bin/ps output

["David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>]

   From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
   Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:15:01 -0700

   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.

Hmm, we put arbitrary tables of information into seperate elf sections
already.  Consider the exception fixup mechanism for example.  That's
the kind of thing I was thinking about.

Oh I see, you're saying that then getting at the things symbolically
will be painful.  Yes it needs more thought.

   If you want to omit the per-cpu area from the kernel image, then
   arrange for it to be .bss.
   
Good idea, well on SMP it can be marked throw-away (ie. __init_data).