[PATCH v7 13/14] module: Do not set nx for module memory before freeing

Nadav Amit namit at vmware.com
Thu Dec 6 17:28:40 UTC 2018


> On Dec 6, 2018, at 1:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:34:07PM -0800, Nadav Amit wrote:
> 
>> So let's remove it. Andy suggested that the changes of the PTEs can be
>> avoided (excluding the direct-mapping alias), which is true. However,
>> in x86 it requires some cleanup of the contiguous page allocator, which
>> is outside of the scope of this patch-set.
> 
> I think x86-cpa stands for change_page_attr() :-)

Thanks - it makes much more sense… I took the first thing that Google
showed.




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