Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758243Ab0DPLmE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:42:04 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:39923 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758212Ab0DPLl6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:41:58 -0400 To: Zan Lynx Cc: Andrew Morton , Taras Glek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup From: Andi Kleen References: <4BBA6776.5060804@mozilla.com> <20100415155309.2649a29b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4BC79F75.2090704@acm.org> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:41:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4BC79F75.2090704@acm.org> (Zan Lynx's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:21:25 -0600") Message-ID: <87vdbr8vzv.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 781 Lines: 23 Zan Lynx writes: > On 4/15/10 4:53 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> This just isn't an interesting case. World-wide, the number of people >> who compile their own web browser and execute it from the file which ld >> produced is, umm, seven. > > Gentoo users? Linux From Scratch? "make install" tends to copy. I am not aware of any Makefiles that link directly to /usr/bin, and usually that wouldn't work anyways because of permissions. copy fixes the problem. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/