On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 09:30 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:38 +0530, S. P. Prasanna wrote: > > > This patch is a quick fix for x86_64 to enable kprobes only if > > > DEBUG_RODATA is > > > not configured. Since DEBUG_RODATA markes the kernel text pages as > > > read-only. > > > > > > it does?? > > > > I don't seem to be able to find this in the source code..... > >
> See arch/x86_64/mm/init.c:mark_rodata_ro(). eh woops PATCH] x86: tighten kernel image page access rights author Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:10 +0000 (19:27 +0200) committer Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:10 +0000 (19:27 +0200) commit 6fb14755a676282a4e6caa05a08c92db8e45cfff changed it to include text (even though Andi vetoed that before when I asked for it on grounds of breaking kprobes)... sounds this really wants to be a 2nd config option to seperatedly do code and data. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/
