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| author | Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> | 2024-05-05 19:06:18 +0300 |
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| committer | Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> | 2024-05-14 00:31:43 -0700 |
| commit | 12af2b83d0b17ec8b379b721dd4a8fbcd5d791f3 (patch) | |
| tree | c04ce85d6f0d1c09aec941554f4623719581ce84 /kernel/module/Kconfig | |
| parent | module: make module_memory_{alloc,free} more self-contained (diff) | |
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mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()
module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code.
Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems
that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and
puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code.
Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various
constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes
additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation.
Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc()
and execmem_free() APIs.
Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and
execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all
call sites to use the new APIs.
Since architectures define different restrictions on placement,
permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by
different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes
a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to
allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that
subsystem.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module/Kconfig b/kernel/module/Kconfig index cb8377a18927..4047b6d48255 100644 --- a/kernel/module/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/module/Kconfig @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ menuconfig MODULES bool "Enable loadable module support" modules + select EXECMEM help Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being |