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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [ARM] Use AT() in the linker script to create correct program headers
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 09:45:00AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:06:39AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:39:53PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > > Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align
> > > > LOAD 0x008000 0xc0008000 0x00008000 0x372244 0x3a4310 RWE 0x8000
> > >
> > > Not related directly to your patch, but I wonder why we don't we see
> > > separate r-x and rw- segments?
> >
> > I think this is because the sections are not aligned when the
> > protections change, and the sections are not sorted by protection
> > type.
>
> They aren't sorted by protection type, they're ordered according to what's
> required for the kernel - which is to have the init sections together as
> one complete block so that it can be freed, and to place all of the kernel
> text as close to the beginning of the image as possible.

Ah, right.

Partly this came from some side speculation about whether we could do
things like privileged read-only permissions on newer CPUs, for preventing
unintended or undesired writes to the kernel's code or read-only data.

There would be various things to solve in order to make that work, so I
guess there's no great urgency for it right now.

Cheers
---Dave


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