Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:55:22 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: "Wappler Marcel" <Marcel.Wappler@bridgeco.net>,
       "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Behaviour of the VM on a embedded linux
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:35:49 +0200
Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.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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