On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:32:38 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 07:32:57PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > > - page = module_alloc(PAGE_SIZE); > > > + page = vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE); > > > > No, you can not use vmalloc here. The reason why we use module_alloc() > > is to allocate the executable memory for trampoline code. > > So, you need to use vmalloc_exec() instead. > > vmalloc_exec() would be broken too, also hch recently got rid of that > thing. > > module_alloc() really is the only sane choice here. > > We should make module_alloc() unconditionally available, and maybe even > rename it to text_alloc(). Agreed. As far as I know, ftrace and bpf also depends on module_alloc(), so text_alloc() will help them too. Thank you, -- Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
