From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4282815F.1000100@engr.sgi.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:04:15 -0500 From: Ray Bryant MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc3 1/8] mm: manual page migration-rc2 -- xfs-extended-attributes-rc2.patch References: <20050511043756.10876.72079.60115@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20050511043802.10876.60521.51027@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20050511071538.GA23090@infradead.org> <4281F650.2020807@engr.sgi.com> <20050511125932.GW25612@wotan.suse.de> <42825236.1030503@engr.sgi.com> <20050511193207.GE11200@wotan.suse.de> <20050511200033.GA2646@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20050511200033.GA2646@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andi Kleen , Ray Bryant , Hirokazu Takahashi , Marcelo Tosatti , Dave Hansen , linux-mm , Nathan Scott , Ray Bryant , lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jes Sorensen List-ID: Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:32:07PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > >>hch: if you still are against this please reread the original thread >>with me and Ray and see why we decided that ld.so changes are not >>a good idea. > > > please send a pointer to the discussion. > The thread starts here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=110817907931126&w=2 > Not that I think it matters a lot. What Ray implemented is a very > special cased hack for migration policies that only applies to shared > libraries. Doing it generically is about the same amount of code and > a lot cleaner. > > Note that I'm not against storing information in the file so that > shared libraries get the proper treatment, but the proper place for > that is an additional ELF header or magic section, similar to the > noexec stack changes. > Can you help me get the glibc developers to buy into the necessary changes to ld.so? (Isn't that where such changes would end up being made?) -- Best Regards, Ray ----------------------------------------------- Ray Bryant 512-453-9679 (work) 512-507-7807 (cell) raybry@sgi.com raybry@austin.rr.com The box said: "Requires Windows 98 or better", so I installed Linux. ----------------------------------------------- -- 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