On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 05:12:35PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Unfortunately mcmodel=large looks pretty heavy too AFAICS, at the machine > instruction level. > > Function calls look like this: > > -mcmodel=medium: > > 757: e8 98 ff ff ff callq 6f4 <test_code> > > -mcmodel=large > > 77b: 48 b8 10 f7 df ff ff movabs $0xffffffffffdff710,%rax > 782: ff ff ff > 785: 48 8d 04 03 lea (%rbx,%rax,1),%rax > 789: ff d0 callq *%rax > > And we'd do this for _EVERY_ function call in the kernel. That kind of crap > is > totally unacceptable.
So why does this need to be computed for every single call? How often will we move the kernel around at runtime? Why can't we process the relocation at load time and then discard the relocation tables along with the rest of __init ? _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
