linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] module: prepare to handle ROX allocations for text

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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 15:23:40 -0700
From: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] module: prepare to handle ROX allocations for text

On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 11:10 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
> index 88ecc5e9f523..7039f609c6ef 100644
> --- a/include/linux/module.h
> +++ b/include/linux/module.h
> @@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ enum mod_mem_type {
>
>  struct module_memory {
>         void *base;
> +       void *rw_copy;
> +       bool is_rox;
>         unsigned int size;

Do we really need to hold the rw_copy all the time? I was
thinking we only need a temporary buffer when we want to
update anything. The buffer might be much smaller than "size".

Thanks,
Song

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