Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:59 -0700, christoph wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:30:03AM -0700, christoph wrote:
Move syscall table, timer_hpet and the boot_cpu_data into the "mostly_readonly" section.
the syscall table should be completely readonly.
Why was it in .data in the first place? There must be some reason why it
was writable?
probably a historic oversight.
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.
--
Brian Gerst
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