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From: Dotan Barak <dotanb@dev.mellanox.co.il>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The code segment of the user level in PPC64 are in VMAs with write permissions
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:55:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4768F89B.1030507@dev.mellanox.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4768E02F.20700@cosmosbay.com>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-19 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-19  7:21 The code segment of the user level in PPC64 are in VMAs with write permissions Dotan Barak
2007-12-19  9:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-19 10:55   ` Dotan Barak [this message]

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