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

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Dinsdag 07 Juni 2005 23:31, 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.

There are some platforms that are able to have the .rodata section
of the kernel in ROM, and not all architectures support large pages,
so putting syscall_table and others into ROM could be a noticeable
advantage.

	Arnd <><
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