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Message-Id: <468BE722.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:29:54 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com> To: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org> Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <patches@...-64.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make SMP locks handling interact properly with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA (2nd try) >>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> 04.07.07 17:41 >>> >Jan Beulich wrote: >> Instead of suppressing the change of .text to become readonly, make >> the SMP locks patching code properly adjust/restore the page access >> rights. >> > >I guess we'll need to do the same thing for paravirt_ops patching? No, the patch already does this (as long as there no code to do that other than in alternatives.c). >> On x86-64 additionally remove all mappings past the kernel image, and >> remove leftovers from the removal of the more general (but abandoned) >> SMP alternatives. >> > >I'd already posted a patch to remove smp alternatives. I thought it had >been merged already, but I guess it's in Andi's queue. Oh, sorry, I forgot to remove that part of the comment after merging up to 2.6..22-rcX. Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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