Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: move both exception tables into .rodata

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/03/16 15:15, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While they are being written during early boot (when sorting them),
> that writing takes place before we actually start fiddling with page
> table permissions, so these tables can benefit from getting write
> protected just like ordinary r/o data does (for now only when using
> 2M mappings).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

I had a plan to modify the build to sort these at build time, like Linux
does.  But either way, this is an improvement.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

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