Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:13:20 +0100 | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: freeing a static after one use only? |
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 07:05:17AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > > I have a large static initialized array that that is compiled into a > > module (it's a translation table, int to char*). I want to > > > > use it once and then throw it away > > vi://TheSource/include/linux/init.h/__initdata
He was talking about modules, and modules don't support .init discarding. modutils do support it, yet the kernel does not. I wrote a patch for this a few years ago, but after numerous failed attempts to get it into 2.3 I gave up. With hotplug it is less useful, but eventhough there are many modules for which it could be a win. You can search l-k for the patch, or might look it up if you're interested.
Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj Linux version 2.3.46 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________
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