Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] module: prepare to handle ROX allocations for text

From: Song Liu
Date: Wed Oct 09 2024 - 18:24:05 EST


On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 11:10 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
> index 88ecc5e9f523..7039f609c6ef 100644
> --- a/include/linux/module.h
> +++ b/include/linux/module.h
> @@ -367,6 +367,8 @@ enum mod_mem_type {
>
> struct module_memory {
> void *base;
> + void *rw_copy;
> + bool is_rox;
> unsigned int size;

Do we really need to hold the rw_copy all the time? I was
thinking we only need a temporary buffer when we want to
update anything. The buffer might be much smaller than "size".

Thanks,
Song

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