Re: [git pull] x86 updates

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> btw., what's the practical consequence of getting these section flags 
> wrong - for example writable data can end up in executable section 
> accidentally and be marked readonly by RODATA? Or can anything more 
> serious happen? (they cannot get into any of the discarded sections, we 
> filter for them explicitly in the linker scripts)

The practical consequences are probably zero - *except* for getting the 
"a" flag wrong, as !a sections will never be loaded.

Technically we should also specify @progbits or @nobits on sections, 
however, I think @progbits is the default.

	-hpa
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