Text Edit Lock [LWN.net]

From:		Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To:		akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:		[patch 0/9] Text Edit Lock
Date:		Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:04:02 -0400
Message-ID:		<20070812150402.148764478@polymtl.ca>
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

Hi Andrew,

Here is the the text edit lock.

It consists in an architecture independent mutex that protects live kernel text
modification and architecture specific RX/RWX remapping functions (for i386 and
x86_64) to support the DEBUG_RODATA config option.

It applies on 2.6.23-rc2-mm2.

Series files:

kprobes-use-mutex-for-insn-pages.patch
kprobes-dont-use-kprobes-mutex-in-arch-code.patch
kprobes-declare-kprobes-mutex-static.patch
text-edit-lock-architecture-independent-code.patch
text-edit-lock-i386.patch
text-edit-lock-x86_64.patch
text-edit-lock-kprobes-architecture-independent.patch
text-edit-lock-kprobes-i386.patch
text-edit-lock-kprobes-x86_64.patch


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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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