On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:05:07PM -0800, Calvin Owens wrote: > Hello all, > > This patchset makes it possible to use bpftrace with kprobes on kernels > built without loadable module support. This is a step in the right direction for another reason: clearly the module_alloc() is not about modules, and we have special reasons for it now beyond modules. The effort to share a generalize a huge page for these things is also another reason for some of this but that is more long term. I'm all for minor changes here so to avoid regressions but it seems a rename is in order -- if we're going to all this might as well do it now. And for that I'd just like to ask you paint the bikeshed with Song Liu as he's been the one slowly making way to help us get there with the "module: replace module_layout with module_memory", and Mike Rapoport as he's had some follow up attempts [0]. As I see it, the EXECMEM stuff would be what we use instead then. Mike kept the module_alloc() and the execmem was just a wrapper but your move of the arch stuff makes sense as well and I think would complement his series nicely. If you're gonna split code up to move to another place, it'd be nice if you can add copyright headers as was done with the kernel/module.c split into kernel/module/*.c Can we start with some small basic stuff we can all agree on? [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/944857/ Luis
