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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:05:29 -0700
From: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/12] arm64, execmem: extend execmem_params for
 generated code definitions

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 1:52 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> From: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@...nel.org>
>
> The memory allocations for kprobes on arm64 can be placed anywhere in
> vmalloc address space and currently this is implemented with an override
> of alloc_insn_page() in arm64.
>
> Extend execmem_params with a range for generated code allocations and
> make kprobes on arm64 use this extension rather than override
> alloc_insn_page().
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@...nel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/module.c         |  9 +++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c |  7 -------
>  include/linux/execmem.h            | 11 +++++++++++
>  mm/execmem.c                       | 14 +++++++++++++-
>  4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
> index c3d999f3a3dd..52b09626bc0f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ static struct execmem_params execmem_params = {
>                         .alignment = MODULE_ALIGN,
>                 },
>         },
> +       .jit = {
> +               .text = {
> +                       .start = VMALLOC_START,
> +                       .end = VMALLOC_END,
> +                       .alignment = 1,
> +               },
> +       },
>  };

This is growing fast. :) We have 3 now: text, data, jit. And it will be
5 when we split data into rw data, ro data, ro after init data. I wonder
whether we should still do some type enum here. But we can revisit
this topic later.

Other than that

Acked-by: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>