• Mike Rapoport (IBM)'s avatar
    mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free() · 12af2b83
    Mike Rapoport (IBM) authored
    module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code.
    
    Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems
    that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and
    puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code.
    
    Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various
    constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes
    additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation.
    
    Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc()
    and execmem_free() APIs.
    
    Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and
    execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all
    call sites to use the new APIs.
    
    Since architectures define different restrictions on placement,
    permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by
    different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes
    a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to
    allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that
    subsystem.
    
    No functional changes.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <song@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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