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From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	jniethe5@gmail.com,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/modules: Load modules closer to kernel text
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:59:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <161880478975.1398509.1364784415611338894.b4-ty@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0c3d5cb8a4dfdf6ca1b8aeb385c01470d6628d55.1617283827.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 13:30:41 +0000 (UTC), Christophe Leroy wrote:
> On book3s/32, when STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is selected, modules are
> allocated on the segment just before kernel text, ie on the
> 0xb0000000-0xbfffffff when PAGE_OFFSET is 0xc0000000.
> 
> On the 8xx, TASK_SIZE is 0x80000000. The space between TASK_SIZE and
> PAGE_OFFSET is not used and could be used for modules.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/3] powerpc/modules: Load modules closer to kernel text
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2ec13df167040cd153c25c4d96d0ffc573ac4c40
[2/3] powerpc/8xx: Define a MODULE area below kernel text
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/9132a2e82adc6e5a1c7c7385df3bfb25576bdd80
[3/3] powerpc/32s: Define a MODULE area below kernel text all the time
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/80edc68e0479bafdc4869ec3351e42316b824596

cheers

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-19  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-01 13:30 [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/modules: Load modules closer to kernel text Christophe Leroy
2021-04-01 13:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/8xx: Define a MODULE area below " Christophe Leroy
2021-04-01 13:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/32s: Define a MODULE area below kernel text all the time Christophe Leroy
2021-04-19  3:59 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]

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