linux-kernel - Re: Behaviour of the VM on a embedded linux

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Message-ID: <20080824165522.16216011@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:55:22 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Cc:	"Wappler Marcel" <Marcel.Wappler@...dgeco.net>,
	"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Behaviour of the VM on a embedded linux

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:35:49 +0200
Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de> wrote:

> Is the application linked statically? If not, code pages might be 
> mapped privately and have been written to due to relocation.
> 
> Link everything statically to avoid this.

... static linking has severe downsides though. You can also just use
prelink to avoid relocations in practice.

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