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by JackSlateur 693 days ago
This is wrong, there are many facilities that, once applied, cannot be modified (unless reboot)
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Such as ?
Random example: https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-7.3/msyscall

This is a syscall used by userspace to tell the kernel which memory portion is allowed to do syscalls

This syscall can only be used once : once the linker has done it, the kernel will refuse extra calls (so allowing more memory pages is not possible)