On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 10:41 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:20:38AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ PHDRS {
> > > text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5); /* R_E */
> > > data PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWE */
> > > user PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWE */
> > >+ data.init PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWE */
> > > note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* R__ */
> > > }
> > > SECTIONS
> >
> > Even though it's only cosmetic, I think it would have been
> > more than appropriate to remove the ill 'E' permission on data
> > with that change.
>
> May be. I just kept it because already data segment had 'E' permissions.
> Ian, any reason why did you keep 'E' on data segment? If it is not
> intentional, I will get rid of it.
I wasn't 100% sure (only 99% :-)) it was unneeded so I kept it to
minimise the changes in the final image since the original .data section
had it.
> >(Btw., why does 'note' need 'R'?)
>
> I went through the comments Ian had put in his patch. There also he
> mentions that people objected to 'R' permissions for note segment as
> it is read only by boot loader. He kept it because i386 had the similar
> thing.
>
> Ian, again if there is no specific reason to keep 'R' for note, I will
> get rid of it.
There was a suggestion at one point that the note section was aliased by
a PT_LOAD and so needed the R but it turned out that wasn't the case.
You can drop it as far as I'm concerned.
Ian.
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