From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA28041 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:34:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:34:48 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.5.64-mm6 Message-Id: <20030313113448.595c6119.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <1047572586.1281.1.camel@ixodes.goop.org> References: <20030313032615.7ca491d6.akpm@digeo.com> <1047572586.1281.1.camel@ixodes.goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:26, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This means that when an executable is first mapped in, the kernel will > > slurp the whole thing off disk in one hit. Some IO changes were made to > > speed this up. > > Does this just pull in text and data, or will it pull any debug sections > too? That could fill memory with a lot of useless junk. > Just text, I expect. Unless glibc is mapping debug info with PROT_EXEC ;) It's just a fun hack. Should be done in glibc. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org