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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: coywolf@sosdg.org
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mark text section read-only
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:50:03 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3066.1131857403@ocs3.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:34:55 CDT." <20051112163455.GA1425@everest.sosdg.org>

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:34:55 -0500, 
Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@sosdg.org> wrote:
>+config DEBUG_ROTEXT
>+	bool "Write protect kernel text"
>+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
>+	help
>+	  Mark the kernel text as write-protected in the pagetables,
>+	  in order to catch accidental (and incorrect) writes to kernel text
>+	  area. This option will increase TLB pressure thus impact performance.
>+	  Note this may conflict with kprobes. If in doubt, say "N".

Also conflicts with kdb, kgdb, and any other kernel debugger that uses
software breakpoints.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-13  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-07 10:56 [patch 01/02] Debug option to write-protect rodata: change_page_attr fixes arjan
2005-11-07 10:58 ` [patch 02/02] Debug option to write-protect rodata: the write protect logic and config option arjan
2005-11-07 14:06   ` Josh Boyer
2005-11-07 14:20     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-11  9:39       ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-11-11  9:47         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-11 18:57           ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-11-11 19:04             ` [patch] mark text section read-only Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-11-11 19:09               ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-11 19:34               ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-12 14:01                 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-11-11 21:43               ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-11 23:30                 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-11-12 17:26                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-12 14:32                 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-11-12 16:34                   ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-11-13  4:50                     ` Keith Owens [this message]
2005-11-14 13:34               ` Linh Dang
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     [not found] ` <56cTZ-2PF-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <56fRE-7wr-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <56gaT-7Un-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <57DHW-jb-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <57DHW-jb-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <57Mia-4BG-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <57MrY-50s-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-11-11 23:03               ` Bodo Eggert
2005-11-12  4:42                 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt

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