linux-kernel - Re: [patch] x86: test case for the RODATA config option

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:29:44 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: test case for the RODATA config option

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:11:41 +1100
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:

> >  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
> >
> > +const int rodata_test_data = 5;
> 
> I guess this should match the 32-bit case, and be zero instead of
> 5?

actually it should have been 5 for both (well any non-zero number)
> 
> Can you disallow building as a module, and put this in the test
> code? It could be run from the end of mark_rodata_ro()...

fair; I was developing it as a module (just easier) but yeah it makes more sense as part
of mark_rodata_ro(). I'll do that in the next rev


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