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Miller" , linux-modules@vger.kernel.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 07:00:41PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > From: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" > > module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code. > > Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems > that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and > puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code. > > Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various > constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes > additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation. > > Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc() > and execmem_free() APIs. > > Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and > execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all > call sites to use the new APIs. > > Since architectures define different restrictions on placement, > permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by > different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes > a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to > allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that > subsystem. It would be good to describe this is a non-fuctional change. > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) > --- > diff --git a/mm/execmem.c b/mm/execmem.c > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..ed2ea41a2543 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/mm/execmem.c > @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 And this just needs to copy over the copyright notices from the main.c file. Luis