From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 updates
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:09:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A8D088.7050209@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080205210508.GA14708@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> btw., what's the practical consequence of getting these section flags
> wrong - for example writable data can end up in executable section
> accidentally and be marked readonly by RODATA? Or can anything more
> serious happen? (they cannot get into any of the discarded sections, we
> filter for them explicitly in the linker scripts)
>
The practical consequences are probably zero - *except* for getting the
"a" flag wrong, as !a sections will never be loaded.
Technically we should also specify @progbits or @nobits on sections,
however, I think @progbits is the default.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-05 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-04 16:12 [git pull] x86 updates Ingo Molnar
2008-02-05 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-05 19:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-05 21:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-05 21:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-02-05 21:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-05 21:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-05 21:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-05 21:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-05 21:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-05 21:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-05 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-05 20:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-05 21:36 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-20 16:49 [GIT PULL] " Ingo Molnar
2009-01-07 18:15 [git pull] " Ingo Molnar
2008-07-15 21:01 [GIT " Thomas Gleixner
2008-07-15 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 21:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-15 21:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-07-15 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 22:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-15 22:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-07-15 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-29 16:00 [git " Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 14:21 Ingo Molnar
2008-02-29 18:08 Ingo Molnar
2008-02-25 16:27 Ingo Molnar
2008-02-19 23:13 [GIT " Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-19 23:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-20 0:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-20 8:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-18 20:21 [GIT Pull] " Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-13 15:57 [git pull] " Ingo Molnar
2008-02-13 16:19 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-14 16:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-14 17:42 ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-15 3:30 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-15 8:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-14 10:25 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-14 15:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-14 17:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-09 23:24 Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-10 1:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-10 8:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-10 9:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-10 23:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-06 14:47 Ingo Molnar
2008-02-01 17:00 Ingo Molnar
2008-01-14 19:02 Ingo Molnar
2008-01-15 16:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-10 3:52 [GIT " Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-23 21:02 [Git " Thomas Gleixner
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