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    module: Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC · 01dc0386
    Christophe Leroy authored
    Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC to allow architectures
    to request having modules data in vmalloc area instead of module area.
    
    This is required on powerpc book3s/32 in order to set data non
    executable, because it is not possible to set executability on page
    basis, this is done per 256 Mbytes segments. The module area has exec
    right, vmalloc area has noexec.
    
    This can also be useful on other powerpc/32 in order to maximize the
    chance of code being close enough to kernel core to avoid branch
    trampolines.
    
    Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
    Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
    [mcgrof: rebased in light of kernel/module/kdb.c move]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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