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On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:47:09PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Andi Kleen writes: > > > The module loader should be discarding these sections on most architectures > > because there is nothing that needs them and it's just a waste of memory > > to store them. > > Apparently the module loader loads all sections marked SHF_ALLOC, > reasonably enough. > > Why would we want the unwind tables in the .ko but not in kernel > memory? Isn't the point of this so that we can add an in-kernel > unwinder? For most people so far it was for kgdb where they would be needed on disk only. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||||
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