Re: kernel .text and .rodata

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> wrote:
>> There are XN for arm, NX for x86.  Seems not widely used yet.
>
> Used on arm now. :)

.rodata is set as XN, right?

Anyway, those symbols, referring to start/end of sections, that used
in kernel start code are internal to kernel, and don't need to be
exposed in the final "netbsd" ELF.  I hope, if some symbols are used
by external loaders, they are explicitly documented/commented so.