Re: [PATCH[ Export __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for modules (vmmon)

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Oct 29 2004 - 04:06:01 EST


On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 00:11 +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Hello Ingo,
> recently support for NX on i386 arrived to 2.6.x kernel, and I have
> some problems building code which uses vmap since then - PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC

why are you vmap'ing *executable* kernel memory?
That sounds very wrong.... very very wrong. The module loader needs it,
sure, but that's not modular. What on earth are you doing ????



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