linux-kernel - Re: bad paravirt/Xen interaction in "x86 - Enhance DEBUG_RODATA support

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Date:	Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:58:03 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Subject: Re: bad paravirt/Xen interaction in "x86 - Enhance DEBUG_RODATA	support
 - alternatives"

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> I think kmap_atomic is only implemented on x86_32 and only deals with
> highmem pages. It will simply return the original page address without
> changing the protection for other pages, which is not what we want.
> Would ioremap() be a good alternative ?
>   

Perhaps, though that's uncached by default.  You could reserve a fixmap 
slot and use set_fixmap to create the mapping.  Or use vmap, which may 
make dealing with instructions crossing page boundaries a little easier.

    J
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