Re: The code segment of the user level in PPC64 are in VMAs with write permissions

Dotan Barak
2007-12-19T10:55:28Z

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