Re: [PATCH 0/7] Allocate module text and data separately

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:22:11AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> This series allow architectures to request having modules data in
> vmalloc area instead of module area.
> 
> This is required on powerpc book3s/32 in order to set data non
> executable, because it is not possible to set executability on page
> basis, this is done per 256 Mbytes segments. The module area has exec
> right, vmalloc area has noexec.
> 
> This can also be useful on other powerpc/32 in order to maximize the
> chance of code being close enough to kernel core to avoid branch
> trampolines.

Am I understanding that this entire effort is for 32-bit powerpc?
If so, why such an interest in 32-bit these days?

  Luis