On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 01:29:07PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > BTW, is there any particular reason these huge arrays are in BSS, and not > > allocated dynamically? That would solve my problems as well... > > Is there a memory allocator available before _any_ locks are used, and > that itself also doesn't use locks? And if that is, the platform could use that to allocate .bss, no?