Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:15:01 -0700 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: [lart] /bin/ps output |
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:53:29PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > In fact, thinking about this some more, we should make the ".per_cpu" > bits emit a table entry instead of some dummy object which takes up > space. The table entry would be in the special .per_cpu > section still but be just a size value.
That's more complicated. Using the linker to help out with layout is definitely helpful. If you want to omit the per-cpu area from the kernel image, then arrange for it to be .bss.
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