Re: [PATCH 26/26] x86, pkeys: Documentation

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/10/2015 00:48, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's quite likely that you will find that compilers put read-only
> constants in the text section, knowing that executable means readable.

Not on x86 (because it has large immediates; RISC machines and s390 do
put large constants in the text section).

But at the very least jump tables reside in the .text seection.

Paolo
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