Re: [PATCH v8 06/17] mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()

On Sun, 5 May 2024 17:25:49 +0300 Mike Rapoport wrote: > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c > index 70139d9d2e01..c8ddb7abda7c 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c > @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ > #include > #include > #include >

[PATCH v8 06/17] mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()

From: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" 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