Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757384AbXFUOlV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:41:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753889AbXFUOkz (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:40:55 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:33922 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753264AbXFUOkx (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:40:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches From: Arjan van de Ven To: Stefan Richter Cc: Linus Torvalds , 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 In-Reply-To: <467A8C9E.4030703@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <467543FA.60905@googlemail.com> <5640c7e00706201508g3c1fc40eq82a1db05c9156b5d@mail.gmail.com> <1182381667.2701.7.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1182403401.2863.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <467A8C9E.4030703@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:36:46 -0700 Message-Id: <1182436606.2863.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 (2.10.2-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 863 Lines: 24 > Shouldn't we add something to the help texts? > > + This option also marks kernel text pages as write-protected, > + except if you enable KPROBES. > > CMIIW. > > As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, replacing CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by > CONFIG_WRITEPROTECT_RODATA and CONFIG_WRITEPROTECT_TEXT might be a > better idea. The latter should be mutual exclusive with CONFIG_KPROBES. lets do the minimal now for 2.6.22, and do it right for .23 please -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/