Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 06:45:17AM +0000, Maxime Villard wrote:
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	maxv
> Date:		Thu May 12 06:45:16 UTC 2016
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/sys/arch/amd64/amd64: locore.S machdep.c
> 	src/sys/arch/amd64/conf: kern.ldscript
> 	src/sys/arch/i386/conf: kern.ldscript
> 	src/sys/arch/i386/i386: locore.S
> 	src/sys/arch/x86/x86: db_memrw.c pmap.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Split the {text+rodata} chunk in two separate chunks on x86. The
> rodata segment now loses the large page optimization, gets mapped inside
> the data segment, and therefore becomes RWX. It may break the build on
> Xen.

This was not discussed anywhere. I'm not even convinced it is a good
idea. So why has this been just committed?

Joerg