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diff --git a/usr/src/lib/libumem/common/umem.c b/usr/src/lib/libumem/common/umem.c
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@@ -484,18 +484,17 @@
* -----------------------------------------------
*
* The last piece of this puzzle is how we actually jam ptcmalloc() into the
- * PLT. To handle this, we have defined two functions, _malloc and _free and
- * used a special mapfile directive to place them into the a readable,
- * writeable, and executable segment. Next we use a standard #pragma weak for
- * malloc and free and direct them to those symbols. By default, those symbols
- * have text defined as nops for our generated functions and when they're
- * invoked, they jump to the default malloc and free functions.
- *
- * When umem_genasm() is called, it goes through and generates new malloc() and
- * free() functions in the text provided for by _malloc and _free just after the
- * jump. Once both have been successfully generated, umem_genasm() nops over the
- * original jump so that we now call into the genasm versions of these
- * functions.
+ * PLT. To handle this, we have defined two functions, _malloc and _free, we
+ * use a standard #pragma weak for malloc and free and direct them to those
+ * symbols. By default, those symbols have text defined as nops for our
+ * generated functions and when they're invoked, they jump to the default
+ * malloc and free functions.
+ *
+ * When umem_genasm() is called, it makes _malloc and _free writeable and goes
+ * through and updates the text provided for by _malloc and _free just after
+ * the jump. Once both have been successfully generated, umem_genasm() nops
+ * over the original jump so that we now call into the genasm versions of
+ * these functions, and makes the functions read-only once again.
*
* 8.3 umem_genasm()
* -----------------