On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:24:13AM +0100, Dave Martin wrote: > 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.
Some other arches page protect the kernel, but that tends to be at odds with the desire to use huge pages for the kernel mapping, and independent of the load headers.. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
