Re: [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly"

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Jun 08 2005 - 05:10:54 EST


On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:00 +0200, JÃrn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 7 June 2005 17:31:19 -0400, 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.
>
> Can you confirm that for every architecture? Or just i386?

does it matter? it's supposed to be read only, only sometimes that's not
enforced unfortunately.


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