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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly"
FromArjan van de Ven <>
DateWed, 08 Jun 2005 12:07:25 +0200
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:00 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 7 June 2005 17:31:19 -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > 
> > It doesn't really matter.  .rodata isn't actually mapped read-only. 
> > Doing so would break up the large pages used to map the kernel.
> 
> Can you confirm that for every architecture?  Or just i386?

does it matter? it's supposed to be read only, only sometimes that's not
enforced unfortunately.


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