From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936018AbXHLPHf (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:07:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758891AbXHLPHM (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:07:12 -0400 Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca ([132.207.4.11]:47414 "EHLO smtp.polymtl.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935294AbXHLPHK (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:07:10 -0400 Message-Id: <20070812150402.148764478@polymtl.ca> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:04:02 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch 0/9] Text Edit Lock X-Poly-FromMTA: (dijkstra.casi.polymtl.ca [132.207.72.10]) at Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:06:38 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, Here is the the text edit lock. It consists in an architecture independent mutex that protects live kernel text modification and architecture specific RX/RWX remapping functions (for i386 and x86_64) to support the DEBUG_RODATA config option. It applies on 2.6.23-rc2-mm2. Series files: kprobes-use-mutex-for-insn-pages.patch kprobes-dont-use-kprobes-mutex-in-arch-code.patch kprobes-declare-kprobes-mutex-static.patch text-edit-lock-architecture-independent-code.patch text-edit-lock-i386.patch text-edit-lock-x86_64.patch text-edit-lock-kprobes-architecture-independent.patch text-edit-lock-kprobes-i386.patch text-edit-lock-kprobes-x86_64.patch -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68