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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> | 2007-06-21 05:23:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-06-21 23:02:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 0864a4e201b1ea442f4c8b887418a29f67e24d30 (patch) | |
| tree | cee5372bb22502e52029543dfb72c571a1e89faa | |
| parent | 79d9a72f87d0a6f910be262a9dd4c36e96972a92 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0864a4e201b1ea442f4c8b887418a29f67e24d30.tar.xz | |
Allow DEBUG_RODATA and KPROBES to co-exist
Do not mark the kernel text read only if KPROBES is in the kernel;
kprobes needs to hot-patch the kernel text to insert it's
instrumentation.
In this case, only mark the .rodata segment as read only.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: S. P. Prasanna <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/Kconfig.debug | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/mm/init.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/mm/init.c | 5 |
4 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug b/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug index 6293920..b31c080 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC config DEBUG_RODATA bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - depends on !KPROBES # temporary for 2.6.22 help Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables, in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/init.c b/arch/i386/mm/init.c index b22ce8d..7135946 100644 --- a/arch/i386/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/i386/mm/init.c @@ -799,6 +799,7 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void) unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_text); unsigned long size = PFN_ALIGN(_etext) - start; +#ifndef CONFIG_KPROBES #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU /* It must still be possible to apply SMP alternatives. */ if (num_possible_cpus() <= 1) @@ -808,7 +809,7 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void) size >> PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_KERNEL_RX); printk("Write protecting the kernel text: %luk\n", size >> 10); } - +#endif start += size; size = (unsigned long)__end_rodata - start; change_page_attr(virt_to_page(start), diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug index 8a86775..775d211 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug" config DEBUG_RODATA bool "Write protect kernel read-only data structures" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - depends on !KPROBES # temporary for 2.6.22 help Mark the kernel read-only data as write-protected in the pagetables, in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to such const data. diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c index efb6e84..9a0e98a 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c @@ -605,6 +605,11 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void) if (num_possible_cpus() > 1) start = (unsigned long)_etext; #endif + +#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES + start = (unsigned long)__start_rodata; +#endif + end = (unsigned long)__end_rodata; start = (start + PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK; end &= PAGE_MASK; |