Re: The code segment of the user level in PPC64 are in VMAs with write permissions

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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