Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Jul 15 2010 - 23:38:32 EST


On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:09:44 -0400
Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We had a request to disable DEBUG_RODATA in our kernel for debugging
> purposes. Turning it off completely seems a bit unfortunate for the
> minority case of people wanting to do debugging, so I came up with
> this patch to make it a boot-time 'disable_rodata' argument.


I'd be very curious what kind of debugging this is...
is this the rootkit type of debugging?


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