Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO

[Paul Mackerras]

Andi Kleen writes:

> The module loader should be discarding these sections on most architectures
> because there is nothing that needs them and it's just a waste of memory
> to store them.

Apparently the module loader loads all sections marked SHF_ALLOC,
reasonably enough.

Why would we want the unwind tables in the .ko but not in kernel
memory?  Isn't the point of this so that we can add an in-kernel
unwinder?

Paul.
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