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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move some more structures into "mostly_readonly"
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 18:54 -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> christoph <christoph@scalex86.org> 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.  

afaik they stopped doing that for 2.6 now that the syscall table isn't
exported.