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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:02:49 -0400
From: jlnance@intrex.net
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Subject: Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:12:56AM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> 	As an extereme illustration, imagine a module with 4095 bytes
> of non-init data and 2 bytes of init data.  With the .init section loaded,
> the module will occupy two pages.  Freeing the .init section will free
> an entire page, making 4096 bytes available to the system, even though
> only two bytes were in the .init section.

Surly we can do better and just not generate .init sections for modules
where the size would be smaller than a page.  Is binutils capable of doing
this given the proper linker script?

Thanks,

Jim
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