linux-kernel - Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: Add mark_rodata

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Message-ID: <d7195d6f-4bfc-d564-e011-1ea86d199649@nod.at>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 20:34:09 +0200
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        user-mode-linux-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] um: Add mark_rodata_ro support.

Thomas,

Am 22.05.2017 um 20:14 schrieb Thomas Meyer:
> It's purely cosmetic; to get rid of the boot message: "This architecture does not have kernel memory protection." in init/main.c
> 
> Which isn't true for UML as all read only stuff should end up in a read only ELF section. Shouldn't it?

Hmm, reading /proc/<pid of uml>/maps tells a different story on my host.
Did you check?

Thanks,
//richard