Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> Surely the fundamental disagreement is only due to DEBUG_RODATA
> covering write-protection of both .text, and .rodata  ?

I agree that we could well split DEBUG_RODATA into something more 
fine-grained, and for example have it _only_ protect that .rodata thing 
when Kprobes are enabled, and both .text _and_ .rodata when Kprobes are 
not.

That would make lots of sense.

		Linus
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