Re: [PATCH v7 13/14] module: Do not set nx for module memory before freeing

From: Nadav Amit
Date: Thu Dec 06 2018 - 12:28:48 EST


> On Dec 6, 2018, at 1:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:34:07PM -0800, Nadav Amit wrote:
>
>> So let's remove it. Andy suggested that the changes of the PTEs can be
>> avoided (excluding the direct-mapping alias), which is true. However,
>> in x86 it requires some cleanup of the contiguous page allocator, which
>> is outside of the scope of this patch-set.
>
> I think x86-cpa stands for change_page_attr() :-)

Thanks - it makes much more senseâ I took the first thing that Google
showed.