Performance of SheevaPlug on 8-stable

[Rafal Jaworowski]

On 2010-03-09, at 00:50, Maks Verver wrote:

> The 1/0/1/1 case appears most frequently. Why executable pages are ever
> mapped writable in user-space, I don't know. It's useful for
> generated/self-modifying code obviously, but I would not expect any of
> the standard tools or libraries to rely on that.

It's needed for example while debugging -- think about injecting breakpoints etc.

Rafal