On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:22:11AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote: > This series 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. Am I understanding that this entire effort is for 32-bit powerpc? If so, why such an interest in 32-bit these days? Luis
