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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #18945, comment 2


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10/08/2019 11:38:02 AM (3 years ago)
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  • Ticket #18945, comment 2

    initial v1  
    122122}}} 
    123123There is no comment left in the code as to why that had been introduced. 
    124 Maybe we should just disable it for the 5.4.0 kernel only though initally. 
    125 Howver looking around in the code, there's is more code involved around 
     124Maybe we should just disable it for the 5.4.0 kernel only though initially. 
     125However looking around in the code, there's is more code involved around 
    126126the executable pages. In Trunk we find: 
    127127 
     
    143143352     } while (0) 
    144144353 #endif 
    145  
     145}}} 
    146146C symbol: MY_SET_PAGES_EXEC 
     147{{{ 
    147148  File                 Function                  Line 
    1481490 the-linux-kernel.h   <global>                  340 #define MY_SET_PAGES_EXEC(pPages, cPages) set_pages_x(pPages, 
     
    301302 
    3023031) 
    303 Only on Linux we apparently have this request for executable kernel memory. 
     304Only on Linux we apparently have this request for executable kernel pages? 
    304305 
    3053062) 
     
    321322other time we do it only for kernels lower then KERNEL_VERSION(2, 4, 22). 
    322323Ie. the first form does include kernel versions 2.4.21/22 and will exclude 
    323 kernel versions 2.4.29 and below while 
     324kernel versions 2.4.20 and below while 
    324325the second form does include kernel versions 2.4.21/20 and will exclude 
    325326kernel versions 2.4.22 and above. 
     
    366367}}} 
    367368 
    368 which finally brings us to the place where we load code 
    369 at such and execute it: 
     369which finally brings us to one place where we load code and execute it: 
    370370 
    371371trunk/src/VBox/Devices/testcase/tstDevice.cpp 
     
    408408 
    409409Functions calling this function: RTMemExecAllocTag 
    410  
     410{{{ 
    411411  File  Function       Line 
    4124120 mem.h RTMemExecAlloc 388 #define RTMemExecAlloc(cb) RTMemExecAllocTag((cb), RTMEM_TAG) 
    413  
     413}}} 
    414414trunk/include/iprt/mem.h 
    415415{{{ 
     
    453453 
    454454A lot of this is obviously related to the recompiler 
    455 but also to the runtime. 
     455but also to the runtime itself. 

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