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Date:   Fri, 16 Jul 2021 23:07:26 +0900
From:   Archie <highsky@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Restoration of the pgprot_t prot parameter in __vmalloc()

Hello everyone,

I made a regex kernel module (https://github.com/smcho-kr/kpcre)
several years ago and it needs executable pages for its JIT
compilation.
I recently discovered that from the 5.8 kernel, the __vmalloc()
function's third parameter - pgprot_t prot - has been removed.
The regex module doesn't work inside the newer kernels because I can't
set "PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC" in __vmalloc().
Would it be possible to revert __vmalloc() back to the old version?

Thank you.

Archie