On 6 July 2013 01:36, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > When we get a segmentation fault we check whether the fault was a write. If > it was a write, it might be a fault because we tried to modify a code region. > > This logic does not work on ARM hosts, because they don't evaluate whether a > segementation fault is due to a write. Instead they always declare it a read. > > So self modifying code fails with a segmentation fault whenever it tries to > modify itself. > > Add the is_write evaluation based on what the kernel tells us as fault reason. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>
We've already got a patch for this on list : http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/248590/ thanks -- PMM
