From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mark text section read-only
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:26:26 +0100
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On Saturday 12 November 2005 00:30, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> 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

Ok then maybe as a debug CONFIG, but definitely not default.

-Andi
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