linux/arch/x86
Steven Rostedt 883242dd0e tracing: allow to change permissions for text with dynamic ftrace enabled
The commit 74e081797b
x86-64: align RODATA kernel section to 2MB with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
prevents text sections from becoming read/write using set_memory_rw.

The dynamic ftrace changes all text pages to read/write just before
converting the calls to tracing to nops, and vice versa.

I orginally just added a flag to allow this transaction when ftrace
did the change, but I also found that when the CPA testing was running
it would remove the read/write as well, and ftrace does not do the text
conversion on boot up, and the CPA changes caused the dynamic tracer
to fail on self tests.

The current solution I have is to simply not to prevent
change_page_attr from setting the RW bit for kernel text pages.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-10-27 13:15:11 -04:00
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boot x86, boot: Simplify setting of the PAE bit 2009-10-24 11:06:38 +02:00
configs tracing: Rename FTRACE_SYSCALLS for tracepoints 2009-08-26 00:17:35 +02:00
crypto Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-14 07:57:32 -07:00
ia32 x86: Don't leak 64-bit kernel register values to 32-bit processes 2009-10-01 11:24:26 +02:00
include/asm x86-64: align RODATA kernel section to 2MB with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA 2009-10-20 14:46:00 +09:00
kernel x86-64: add comment for RODATA large page retainment 2009-10-20 14:46:01 +09:00
kvm KVM: add support for change_pte mmu notifiers 2009-10-04 17:04:53 +02:00
lguest lguest: move panic notifier registration to its expected place. 2009-09-23 22:26:44 +09:30
lib x86: Don't generate cmpxchg8b_emu if CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y 2009-10-01 08:42:24 +02:00
math-emu Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
mm tracing: allow to change permissions for text with dynamic ftrace enabled 2009-10-27 13:15:11 -04:00
oprofile perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
pci const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
power x86: Remove final bits of CONFIG_X86_OLD_MCE 2009-09-18 08:31:23 +02:00
vdso kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoption 2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
video
xen const: constify remaining file_operations 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
Kbuild x86: standardize Kbuild rules 2009-04-16 18:09:02 +02:00
Kconfig x86, SLUB: Remove unused CONFIG FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 2009-10-01 10:59:08 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Optimize cmpxchg64() at build-time some more 2009-10-01 08:01:08 +02:00
Kconfig.debug kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures 2009-06-15 15:49:17 +02:00
Makefile kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script 2009-09-20 12:18:14 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu x86: add specific support for Intel Atom architecture 2009-08-23 11:20:02 +02:00