Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jun 20 2007 - 19:51:45 EST




On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> Surely the fundamental disagreement is only due to DEBUG_RODATA
> covering write-protection of both .text, and .rodata ?

I agree that we could well split DEBUG_RODATA into something more
fine-grained, and for example have it _only_ protect that .rodata thing
when Kprobes are enabled, and both .text _and_ .rodata when Kprobes are
not.

That would make lots of sense.

Linus
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