Re: Improvements in amd64

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:07:51PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> Yes, other architectures should take a hint from this. In fact, as NXR 
> points
> out, almost all architectures map rodata with RX.

Indeed. And additionally I somehow assumed .rodata would be tiny comapred
to .text - but looking at sizes in actual kernels I see it is really huge
(big enough to benefit from 1Mb pages on amd64; not quite big enough
for 4Mb pages on sparc64).

I wonder how much of that is driver specific firmware that is never going
to be needed on my machine - I should use more modular kernels maybe.

Martin