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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:08:13 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com> To: <vgoyal@...ibm.com> Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>, "Magnus Damm" <magnus@...inux.co.jp>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <patches@...-64.org>, <Ian.Campbell@...Source.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [18/19] x86_64: Overlapping program headers in physical addr space fix >I think plain "init" also does not reflect the correct name as this section >is also mapping .data.init_task, .data.page_aligned and .data_nosave, which >will probably never get freed. It maps smp alternatives sections which will >not be freed if CPU_HOTPLUG is enabled. It also maps .bss, which will never >get freed. > >I think, the sections which are not being freed, should be moved up and >made part of 'data' segment. Then create a segment 'init' for all the init >text/data and finally create another segment say 'bss' to map bss at the >end. How does this sound? Superb. Though I guess .bss needs no extra segment, it should simply be the last thing in the data segment. Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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