linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in

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Date:	Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:20:40 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Patrick Mau <mau@...ar.ping.de>
cc:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	devzero@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in


On Dec 31 2007 18:43, Patrick Mau wrote:
>
>May I ask something that might be obvious for most of the
>development community:
>
>Modules have to be loaded in seperate pages, right ?

That seems to be the case, judging from /proc/modules always ending in 000,
meaning each module is aligned at 0x1000 (4096, a page on i386).

Additionally, it looks like 48% of all kernel symbols (from System.map)
are aligned to 16 byte boundaries (what a waste! ;-))
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