From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/7] linux: add linker tables
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:16:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C7781D.3040603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455889559-9428-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@kernel.org>
On 02/19/2016 05:45 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This is my v2 of the original linker table work [0], now with
> six proof of concepts ports of existing code using custom section
> with custom linker script modifications:
>
> * DEFINE_LINKTABLE_TEXT(char, kprobes);
> * DEFINE_LINKTABLE_DATA(struct jump_entry, __jump_table);
> * DEFINE_LINKTABLE_DATA(struct _ddebug, __verbose);
> * DEFINE_LINKTABLE_RO(struct builtin_fw, builtin_fw);
> * DEFINE_LINKTABLE_INIT(struct x86_init_fn, x86_init_fns);
> * DEFINE_LINKTABLE_INIT_DATA(unsigned long, _kprobe_blacklist);
>
> I've tested all except jump tables, I'd appreaciate some help with that.
>
We should add support for read-mostly, probably. In fact, some of these
probably *are* read-mostly.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-19 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-19 13:45 [RFC v2 0/7] linux: add linker tables Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 13:45 ` [RFC v2 1/7] sections.h: add sections header to collect all section info Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 16:23 ` Greg KH
2016-02-19 20:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 21:25 ` Greg KH
2016-02-19 21:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 13:45 ` [RFC v2 2/7] tables.h: add linker table support Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 20:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-19 21:48 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-23 23:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-23 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-23 23:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-24 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-24 0:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-19 21:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 13:45 ` [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-29 10:12 ` David Woodhouse
2016-02-29 18:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-05-02 18:34 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-02 18:41 ` Greg KH
2016-05-03 17:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-05-03 17:07 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-05-03 17:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-05-03 17:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-05-03 17:21 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-03 18:12 ` Greg KH
2016-03-01 16:10 ` James Bottomley
2016-03-01 17:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-29 19:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 13:45 ` [RFC v2 4/7] asm/sections: add a generic push_section_tbl() Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-19 21:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-22 2:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-02-26 14:56 ` Heiko Carstens
2016-05-20 19:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 13:45 ` [RFC v2 5/7] jump_label: port __jump_table to linker tables Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 13:45 ` [RFC v2 6/7] dynamic_debug: port to use " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 13:45 ` [RFC v2 7/7] kprobes: port to linker table Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 14:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-02-19 14:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-22 1:34 ` 平松雅巳 / HIRAMATU，MASAMI
2016-02-23 0:52 ` [Xen-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-07-21 23:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-19 20:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2016-02-19 21:19 ` [RFC v2 0/7] linux: add linker tables Luis R. Rodriguez
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