[PATCH v2 1/3] module: Rename module_alloc() to text_alloc() and move to kernel proper

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:03:45 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:33:14 +0100
> Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Should work for all cases. Yes, we might then want something like a per
> > > arch:
> > > 
> > > 	{BPF,FTRACE,KPROBE}_TEXT_TYPE  
> > 
> > ... at that point why not:
> > 
> >   text_alloc_ftrace();
> >   text_alloc_module();
> >   text_alloc_bpf();
> >   text_alloc_kprobe();
> 
> I don't know about bpf and kprobes, but for ftrace, the only place that
> it allocates text happens to be in arch specific code.
> 
> If you want something special for ftrace, you could just add your own
> function. But for x86, a text_alloc_immediate() would work.
> (BTW, I like the function names over the enums)

kprobes will need the text_alloc_immediate() too, since it will use
the trampoline buffer where jumps to/from kernel code/modules.

Thanks,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>