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

[Brian Gerst]

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.

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				Brian Gerst
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