Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756327AbXFTXvo (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:51:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753701AbXFTXvg (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:51:36 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:47742 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752855AbXFTXvf (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:51:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:48:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Dave Jones cc: Ian McDonald , Andrew Morton , LKML , Miklos Szeredi , Ingo Molnar , "Darrick J. Wong" , Andi Kleen , Bj?rn Steinbrink , William Cohen , "S. P. Prasanna" , Antonino Daplas , Olaf Hering , Ville Syrj?l? , Jean Delvare , Rudolf Marek , Soeren Sonnenburg , Michal Piotrowski Subject: Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches In-Reply-To: <20070620230751.GA15092@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <467543FA.60905@googlemail.com> <5640c7e00706201508g3c1fc40eq82a1db05c9156b5d@mail.gmail.com> <20070620230751.GA15092@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 672 Lines: 20 On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > Surely the fundamental disagreement is only due to DEBUG_RODATA > covering write-protection of both .text, and .rodata ? I agree that we could well split DEBUG_RODATA into something more fine-grained, and for example have it _only_ protect that .rodata thing when Kprobes are enabled, and both .text _and_ .rodata when Kprobes are not. That would make lots of sense. Linus - 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/