Bart Smaalders wrote:
> John Levon wrote:
>> Has someone thought through the implications of the IPS approach on
>> the CTF parts of the kernel build? (See
>> http://blogs.sun.com/levon/entry/reducing_ctf_overhead if you need
>> context)
> 
>  From the referenced blog:
> 
>> For the sake of kmdb and crash dumps, the CTF data for each kernel
>> binary is present in the memory image of a booted kernel. 
> 
> Since the ctf data is present in the in memory portion of the elf files,
> it is part of the elf hash and thus any file w/ varying cft data should be
> part of the new package(s).

I don't know much about CTF but why is it in the in memory portion of 
the ELF file ?  Is this so that DTrace and mdb can depend on it being 
loaded ?

-- 
Darren J Moffat
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