Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751550Ab2JHKYX (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 06:24:23 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:47827 "EHLO mail-la0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750817Ab2JHKYT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 06:24:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:24:13 +0100 From: Dave Martin To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ARM] Use AT() in the linker script to create correct program headers Message-ID: <20121008102413.GC2302@linaro.org> References: <20120930232116.GC30637@obsidianresearch.com> <20121001153952.GB2100@linaro.org> <20121001160639.GA31620@obsidianresearch.com> <20121005084500.GI4625@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121005084500.GI4625@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1546 Lines: 34 On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 09:45:00AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:06:39AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:39:53PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > > > > Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align > > > > LOAD 0x008000 0xc0008000 0x00008000 0x372244 0x3a4310 RWE 0x8000 > > > > > > Not related directly to your patch, but I wonder why we don't we see > > > separate r-x and rw- segments? > > > > I think this is because the sections are not aligned when the > > protections change, and the sections are not sorted by protection > > type. > > They aren't sorted by protection type, they're ordered according to what's > required for the kernel - which is to have the init sections together as > one complete block so that it can be freed, and to place all of the kernel > text as close to the beginning of the image as possible. Ah, right. Partly this came from some side speculation about whether we could do things like privileged read-only permissions on newer CPUs, for preventing unintended or undesired writes to the kernel's code or read-only data. There would be various things to solve in order to make that work, so I guess there's no great urgency for it right now. Cheers ---Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/