From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:42:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100715204233.370b6aa2@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100715210944.GA24961@redhat.com>
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:09:44 -0400
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> We had a request to disable DEBUG_RODATA in our kernel for debugging
> purposes. Turning it off completely seems a bit unfortunate for the
> minority case of people wanting to do debugging, so I came up with
> this patch to make it a boot-time 'disable_rodata' argument.
I'd be very curious what kind of debugging this is...
is this the rootkit type of debugging?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-16 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-15 21:09 Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable Dave Jones
2010-07-15 21:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-07-15 21:52 ` Dave Jones
2010-07-15 22:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-07-15 22:09 ` Dave Jones
2010-07-16 3:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-07-16 3:42 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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