Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751313AbVKKX3r (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:29:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751314AbVKKX3r (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:29:47 -0500 Received: from H190.C26.B96.tor.eicat.ca ([66.96.26.190]:29370 "EHLO moraine.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751313AbVKKX3q (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:29:46 -0500 From: Nikita Danilov MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17269.10620.891788.767146@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:30:04 +0300 To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven , Josh Boyer , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [patch] mark text section read-only Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel In-Reply-To: <200511112243.42255.ak@suse.de> References: <20051107105624.GA6531@infradead.org> <2cd57c900511111057n3a7741ddw@mail.gmail.com> <20051111190447.GA14481@everest.sosdg.org> <200511112243.42255.ak@suse.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (patch 17) "chayote" (+CVS-20040321) XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 562 Lines: 22 Andi Kleen writes: [...] > > Overall I doubt it is worth it even as a debugging option. I so far cannot > remember a single bug that was caused by overwriting kernel text. I wouldn't forget that one for a long time: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106503116306729&w=2 > > -Andi > Nikita. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/