on 05/07/2010 20:12 Bjoern A. Zeeb said the following: > On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 02/07/2010 11:29 Bjoern A. Zeeb said the following: >>> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> >>> Hey, >>> >>>> Proposed patch skips zero sized sections without going into trouble of >>>> allocating section entry (progtab), doing zero-sized memory allocs and >>>> copies. >>>> I observe that sometimes zero-sized set_pcpu sections are produced in >>>> module >>>> objects, maybe when a module doesn't create any per cpu data of its >>>> one, but >>>> references external pcpu data. Not sure. >> [snip] >>>> This work is based on np@'s investigation and original patch: >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-November/030093.html >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Have you guys figured this out already? >> >> By 'this' - do you mean why that zero-sized section is produced at all? >> Does it really matter why that happens? > > Well, no, I was thinking of the workaround and going ahead to commit > somehting;)
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