Hi, This code adds locking around text section modifications. It can be used by paravirt/alternatives, kprobes and eventually the immediate values to:
A - synchronize dynamic code patching B - make sure the pages are writable I only provided the i386 version, but it could be easily ported to other architectures. It applies at the end of the 2.6.22-rc4-mm2 series in the following order: text-edit-lock-i386.patch text-edit-lock-alternative-i386.patch text-edit-lock-kprobes-i386.patch Comments are welcome, (testing is welcome too) Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
