Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly" | Date | Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:54:57 -0400 |
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christoph <christoph@scalex86.org> writes:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, 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.
> In that case.... here is a patch that moves the table into rodata.
AFS writes to the system call table. If as Brian says, .rodata isn't actually mapped read-only, then users of AFS could use this syscall table patch without problems, but it is nonetheless pointless and misleading.
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