Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> said:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
[...]
> > How large would that be? What about a piece of the module that just stays
> > put in the kernel (no special section loaded, etc)? If you want this for a
> > module, you'll probably want to initialize it at boot anyway.
> Now that /is/ a nice idea. It shouldn't take much memory --
> __persistant would probably be a small section that could be kmalloced.
No, just make it a fixed variable inside the kernel. No kmalloc() or other
overhead at all. If it will stay put regardless, why make it dynamic?
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