linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 0/6] Allocate module text and data separately

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Message-Id: <cover.1645607143.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Date:   Wed, 23 Feb 2022 13:02:10 +0100
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 0/6] Allocate module text and data separately

This series applies on top of my series "miscellanuous cleanups" v4.


This series allow architectures to request having modules data in
vmalloc area instead of module area.

This is required on powerpc book3s/32 in order to set data non
executable, because it is not possible to set executability on page
basis, this is done per 256 Mbytes segments. The module area has exec
right, vmalloc area has noexec. Without this change module data
remains executable regardless of CONFIG_STRICT_MODULES_RWX.

This can also be useful on other powerpc/32 in order to maximize the
chance of code being close enough to kernel core to avoid branch
trampolines.

Changes in v6:
- Rebased on top of my series "miscellanuous cleanups" v4

Changes in v5:
- Rebased on top of Aaron's series "module: core code clean up" v8

Changes in v4:
- Rebased on top of Aaron's series "module: core code clean up" v6

Changes in v3:
- Fixed the tree for data_layout at one place (Thanks Miroslav)
- Moved removal of module_addr_min/module_addr_max macro out of patch 1 in a new patch at the end of the series to reduce churn.

Changes in v2:
- Dropped first two patches which are not necessary. They may be added back later as a follow-up series.
- Fixed the printks in GDB

Christophe Leroy (6):
  module: Always have struct mod_tree_root
  module: Prepare for handling several RB trees
  module: Introduce data_layout
  module: Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
  module: Remove module_addr_min and module_addr_max
  powerpc: Select ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC on book3s/32 and
    8xx

 arch/Kconfig                |   6 +++
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig        |   1 +
 include/linux/module.h      |   8 +++
 kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c |  10 +++-
 kernel/module/internal.h    |  13 +++--
 kernel/module/kallsyms.c    |  18 +++----
 kernel/module/main.c        | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 kernel/module/procfs.c      |   8 ++-
 kernel/module/strict_rwx.c  |  11 ++--
 kernel/module/tree_lookup.c |  28 ++++++----
 10 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

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