Re: [PATCH RFC] kprobes: Remove MODULES dependency

[Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 09:22:43AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:18:02 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Agreed. As far as I know, ftrace and bpf also depends on module_alloc(),
> > so text_alloc() will help them too.
> > 
> 
> Yes please.
> 
> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> #include <linux/moduleloader.h>
> /* Module allocation simplifies allocating memory for code */
> static inline void *alloc_tramp(unsigned long size)
> {
> 	return module_alloc(size);
> }
> static inline void tramp_free(void *tramp)
> {
> 	module_memfree(tramp);
> }
> #else
> /* Trampolines can only be created if modules are supported */
> static inline void *alloc_tramp(unsigned long size)
> {
> 	return NULL;
> }
> static inline void tramp_free(void *tramp) { }
> #endif
> 
> -- Steve

Thanks, note taken. I'll take this into account in the next version.

/Jarkko