Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:55:23 +0200 | From | Dotan Barak <> | Subject | Re: The code segment of the user level in PPC64 are in VMAs with write permissions |
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Eric Dumazet wrote: > This is because on PPC architecture, address of a function points to a > small > data area (a function descriptor) where the caller can find > informations about : > > - Address (in the text segment, so readonly) of the target function > - Address of the TOC for this function. > > > http://www.linux-foundation.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.9.html#FUNC-ADDRESS > >
thank you very much for clearing this issue. Dotan
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