On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:28:09AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote: > Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC to allow architectures > to request having modules data in vmalloc area instead of module area. > > This is required on powerpc book3s/32 in order to set data non > executable, because it is not possible to set executability on page > basis, this is done per 256 Mbytes segments. The module area has exec > right, vmalloc area has noexec. > > This can also be useful on other powerpc/32 in order to maximize the > chance of code being close enough to kernel core to avoid branch > trampolines. > > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for diligence in making sure kdb is up to date! Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> Daniel.
