Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:41:41 +1200 | From | "Ian McDonald" <> | Subject | Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches |
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On 6/21/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > Well, for 2.6.22, Kprobes will just be disabled if you use DEBUG_RODATA. > > And yes, that patch already got merged. However, the patch to *allow* > Kprobes with DEBUG_RODATA is not, and will not be. It's not a regression, > and quite frankly, I don't think I would even want that patch. > > Kprobes fundamntally disagrees with DEBUG_RODATA, there's no point in > "working around it". Better just admit it. > > Linus > It depends on the purpose of DEBUG_RODATA. If DEBUG_RODATA was for security reasons then I agree, but it seems to be more to catch accidental writes. Kprobes isn't an accidental write and I would suspect many developers would want to catch accidental writes and be able to insert kprobes.
Or is there something else I'm missing - i.e. you're saying the patch itself is crap?
Ian
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