Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:10:50 -0700 | From | Roland McGrath <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386 vsyscall DSO implementation |
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> We already embed a cpio archive into __initdata space. What about > putting the images in there, and either copying the data out of > initramfs, or, directly referencing the pages that store each image?
It doesn't matter to me, but I don't see the benefit to doing that. It's rather unlike what initramfs is used for now and would need a bunch of extra code to accomplish something very simple.
The DSO images are not stored page-aligned and padded in the kernel image, so the pages can't be used directly. Storing them that way would use more space in the kernel image on disk, and then you'd want to free initdata page containing the unused one. - 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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