RFC: Implementation of ELF sharable sections

Christoph Hellwig hch@infradead.org
Fri Jan 5 08:53:00 GMT 2007


On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:31:46PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Here is one implementation of ELF sharable section proposal:
> 
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/bca08f6560f61b0d
> 
> Several people have expressed interests. I post it here for comments.
> I used OS specific values. If we get consensus, I can change those
> values to generic range.

For Linux pleases don't put this into the ABI until the OS actually
supports this type of memory.  Which I doubt it will anytime soon as
the concept is rather oddly defined and no one posted a kernel-level
design and implementation yet.



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