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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 1] x86_64: Put .note.* sections into a PT_NOTE segment
	in vmlinux
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:11:26 -0700
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To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xensource.com>
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Ian Campbell wrote:
> It has been suggested to me that the notes segment should have flags 0
> (i.e. not readable) since it is only used by the loader and is not used
> at runtime. For now I went with a readable segment since that is what
> the i386 patch uses.
>   =


Note that the PT_NOTEs segment is aliased to a part of one of the =

PT_LOADs - ie, it points into the data segment.  So making it -rwx would =

either be ignored, or also require putting the bits into a new PT_LOAD =

segment with 0 permissions, which is pretty pointless.  I made it R_E =

just so there was no permissions conflict, though the _E part could =

probably go.

    J