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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ananth@in.ibm.com,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch 1/2] add non_init_kernel_text_address
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:09:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071213230916.cd30de8c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712141225.30099.srinivasa@in.ibm.com>

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:25:30 +0530 Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> Since __init functions are discarded and its memory freed once
> initialization completes, It would be better if we enable kprobes 
> to refuse probing __init functions. The attached patchset will do 
> that.
> 
> This patch creates non_init_kernel_text_address() to identify
> non_init text area.
> 
> Iam open to suggestions for a better functionname. 
> 

It's not a great name.  One wonders how it handles __exit text, for example.

regular_kernel_text_address()?  Dunno.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-14  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14  6:55 [RFC] [patch 1/2] add non_init_kernel_text_address Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14  6:57 ` [RFC] [patch 2/2] Refuse kprobe insertion on __init section code Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14  7:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-12-14  7:51   ` [RFC] [patch 1/2] add non_init_kernel_text_address Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-12-18  4:57     ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-18  6:46       ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-18  7:23         ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-19  5:11           ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-01  6:34             ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14  9:30   ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14 10:17     ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14 12:46       ` Johannes Weiner
2007-12-17 10:15         ` Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-17 10:20           ` [RFC] [patch 2/2] Refuse kprobe insertion on __init section code Srinivasa Ds
2007-12-14  9:34   ` Srinivasa Ds

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