From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759534AbXH0QDn (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:03:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758238AbXH0P64 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:58:56 -0400 Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca ([132.207.4.11]:43126 "EHLO smtp.polymtl.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758670AbXH0P6y (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:58:54 -0400 Message-Id: <20070827155601.360241608@polymtl.ca> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:56:01 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch 00/10] Text Edit Lock X-Poly-FromMTA: (dijkstra.casi.polymtl.ca [132.207.72.10]) at Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:58:50 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, Here is the updated version of the Text Edit Lock for 2.6.23-rc3-mm1. It provides architecture agnostic synchronization for code patching and deals with i386/x86_64 modification of RO pages by clearing the WP bit around memory writes. It is useful for alternatives, paravirt, kprobes and, eventually, immediate values. Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68