Andrew Morton writes: > I guess if the bss has zero length then we can skip the zeroing of the end > of the page at the end of bss, as long as we're dead sure that we didn't > accidentally instantiate a single page on behalf of that zero-length bss.
There is another thing I noticed about the bss code, which is that it doesn't give the bss the permissions from the PT_LOAD segment, rather it just uses VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS. That doesn't matter at the moment but may matter in future for ppc32. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
