On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 09:57:59AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > This is growing fast. :) We have 3 now: text, data, jit. And it will be > > 5 when we split data into rw data, ro data, ro after init data. I wonder > > whether we should still do some type enum here. But we can revisit > > this topic later. > > I don't think we'd need 5. Four at most :) > > I don't know yet what would be the best way to differentiate RW and RO > data, but ro_after_init surely won't need a new type. It either will be > allocated as RW and then the caller will have to set it RO after > initialization is done, or it will be allocated as RO and the caller will > have to do something like text_poke to update it. Perhaps ro_after_init could use the same allocation interface and share pages with ro pages - if we just added a refcount for "this page currently needs to be rw, module is still loading?" text_poke() approach wouldn't be workable, you'd have to audit and fix all module init code in the entire kernel.
