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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modules
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:51:55 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907130851.56161.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090712083227.39939849@infradead.org>

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:02:27 am Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > Yes, maybe that's better than kmalloc.  On my laptop I have 105
> > modules loaded, with 3778464 total length: I'm wasting 206944 bytes
> > on unused tails of pages.  But that's only 0.06% of my memory.
>
> 105 is also a sign that you picked a somewhat suboptimal config...
> that's of course your choice but it's a choice that has a small price,
> if you don't want to pay that price, changing the config to not be
> entirely insane is a good answer as well ;-)

To be clear: I run distro kernels on my laptop (Ubuntu in this case).  I think 
this is what we should be optimizing for, or we should offer the distros 
something better than modules.

Cheers,
Rusty.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-12 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-08 23:10 [PATCH v5] RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modules Siarhei Liakh
     [not found] ` <20090710112403.GC3760@elte.hu>
     [not found]   ` <200907111537.03191.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-07-11  7:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-11 11:22       ` Rusty Russell
2009-07-11  8:51     ` Rusty Russell
2009-07-11 15:49       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-07-12  4:40         ` Rusty Russell
2009-07-12  4:45           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-12  7:45           ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-07-12  9:25             ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-12  9:58             ` Rusty Russell
2009-07-12 15:32               ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-07-12 17:33                 ` Greg KH
2009-07-12 21:58                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-07-12 22:14                     ` Greg KH
2009-07-13  9:02                     ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-12 23:21                 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-07-13  3:11                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-07-12  9:24           ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-13 16:59             ` Roland Dreier
2009-07-13 10:59           ` Jesper Nilsson

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