>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.
>
>[IA64 might be an exception because they have a kernel level unwinder]
>
>So it would be best to change the module loader to do this I guess.
But that's why this is a config option: You can prevent the data from being created in the first place if you know you
won't need it. For nlkd, adding code to discard these sections despite CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO would only make for more
differences, because I'd then have to undo this discarding.
Jan
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