Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] vmalloc: Add text_alloc() and text_free()

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 05:52:45PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 06:04:17 +0300
> Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Introduce functions for allocating memory for dynamic trampolines, such
> > as kprobes. An arch can promote the availability of these functions with
> > CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TEXT_ALLOC. Provide default/fallback implementation
> > wrapping module_alloc() and module_memfree().
> 
> Doesn't it depend on CONFIG_MODULE?

The idea would be that arch specifically promotes that it has text
allocator that is not dependent on module subsystem.

E.g. like the patch set does for x86.

/Jarkko