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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> | 2007-06-20 22:23:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-06-21 16:02:50 -0700 |
| commit | 0864a4e201b1ea442f4c8b887418a29f67e24d30 (patch) | |
| tree | cee5372bb22502e52029543dfb72c571a1e89faa /arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | 79d9a72f87d0a6f910be262a9dd4c36e96972a92 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig.debug index 8a8677518447..775d211a5cf9 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. |