Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935594Ab0GPDi2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:38:28 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:54719 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935392Ab0GPDi1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:38:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:42:33 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Dave Jones Cc: Linux Kernel , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable Message-ID: <20100715204233.370b6aa2@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20100715210944.GA24961@redhat.com> References: <20100715210944.GA24961@redhat.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 22 On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:09:44 -0400 Dave Jones wrote: > We had a request to disable DEBUG_RODATA in our kernel for debugging > purposes. Turning it off completely seems a bit unfortunate for the > minority case of people wanting to do debugging, so I came up with > this patch to make it a boot-time 'disable_rodata' argument. I'd be very curious what kind of debugging this is... is this the rootkit type of debugging? -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.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/