From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@cmu.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly"
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:54:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdg9eq0u.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506071519470.19659@ScMPusgw> (christoph@scalex86.org's message of "Tue, 7 Jun 2005 15:23:01 -0700 (PDT)")
christoph <christoph@scalex86.org> writes:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, 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.
> In that case.... here is a patch that moves the table into rodata.
AFS writes to the system call table. If as Brian says, .rodata isn't
actually mapped read-only, then users of AFS could use this syscall
table patch without problems, but it is nonetheless pointless and
misleading.
--
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-07 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-07 18:30 [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly" christoph
2005-06-07 19:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-07 19:59 ` christoph
2005-06-07 20:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-07 21:31 ` Brian Gerst
2005-06-07 22:23 ` christoph
2005-06-07 22:54 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard [this message]
2005-06-08 6:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-08 17:56 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2005-06-08 10:00 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-08 10:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-08 10:20 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-08 10:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-08 11:08 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-08 14:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-08 12:16 ` Pavel Machek
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