Re: [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly"

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

christoph <christoph@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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