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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] x86/ftrace: Use text_poke()
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 04:42:58PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 03:56:34PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Right, the problem is set_all_modules_text_*(), that relies on COMING
> > having made the protection changes.
> > 
> > After the x86 changes, there's only 2 more architectures that use that
> > function. I'll work on getting those converted and then we can delete
> > that function and worry no more about it.
> 
> Here's a possible patch for arch/arm, which only leaves arch/nds32/.

*sigh*, so I'd written the patching code for nds32, but then discovered
it doesn't have STRICT_MODULE_RWX and therefore we can simply delete the
thing.