[PATCH v2.1] arm64: kgdb: handle read-only text / modules

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Sep 23 02:49:53 PDT 2016


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 04:42:08PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> Handle read-only cases (CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA/CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX)
> by using aarch64_insn_write() instead of probe_kernel_write().
> See how this works:
>     commit 2f896d586610 ("arm64: use fixmap for text patching")
> 
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com>
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 3.18-3.19: 2f896d5: arm64: use fixmap
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 3.18-3.19: f6242ca: arm64: Fix text
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.0-

Queued for 4.8 with a slight change in the last Cc: tag above:

Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 3.18.x-

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin



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