Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.64-mm6 | From | Shawn <> | Date | 13 Mar 2003 21:46:49 -0600 |
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On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 21:28, Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 12:34, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:26, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > This means that when an executable is first mapped in, the kernel will > > > > > slurp the whole thing off disk in one hit. Some IO changes were made to > > > > > speed this up. > > > > > > > > Does this just pull in text and data, or will it pull any debug sections > > > > too? That could fill memory with a lot of useless junk. > > > > > > > > > > Just text, I expect. Unless glibc is mapping debug info with PROT_EXEC ;) > > > > > > It's just a fun hack. Should be done in glibc. > > > > Well, fun hack or glibc to-do list candidate, I hope it doesn't get > > forgotten. > > I have to pull the odd party trick to get people to test -mm kernels.
This reminds me of something I've not looked into for some time.
Being an active user of the 2.5 series including -mm, should I have updated glibc, or is there nothing new enough yet to warrant that?
Maybe I should just ask the glibc people. Wasn't sure what the proper forum was. - 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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