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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>2007-06-20 22:23:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-06-21 16:02:50 -0700
commit0864a4e201b1ea442f4c8b887418a29f67e24d30 (patch)
treecee5372bb22502e52029543dfb72c571a1e89faa /arch/i386/mm
parent79d9a72f87d0a6f910be262a9dd4c36e96972a92 (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/i386/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/mm/init.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/init.c b/arch/i386/mm/init.c
index b22ce8d6b1b..7135946d366 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),