Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030813AbWJDLDO (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:03:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030820AbWJDLDO (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:03:14 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:33712 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030813AbWJDLDN (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:03:13 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/12] i386: Force section size to be non-zero to prevent a symbol becoming absolute Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 13:02:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@osdl.org, horms@verge.net.au, lace@jankratochvil.net, hpa@zytor.com, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com References: <20061003170032.GA30036@in.ibm.com> <20061003170908.GC3164@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20061003170908.GC3164@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610041302.46672.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 566 Lines: 22 > /* writeable */ > @@ -64,6 +66,7 @@ SECTIONS > *(.data.nosave) > . = ALIGN(4096); > __nosave_end = .; > + LONG(0) > } > > . = ALIGN(4096); You're wasting one full page once for each of these LONG(0)s because of the following 4096 alignment. Isn't there some way to do this less wastefull? -Andi - 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/