From: junan <junan76@163.com>
To: jason.wessel@windriver.com, danielt@kernel.org,
dianders@chromium.org, corbet@lwn.net
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, junan <junan76@163.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: kgdb: Add description about rodata=off kernel parameter
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:03:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260116050410.772340-2-junan76@163.com> (raw)
STRICT_KERNEL_RWX can not be turned off throught menuconfig on some
architectures, pass "rodata=off" to the kernel in this case.
Tested with qemu on arm64.
Signed-off-by: junan <junan76@163.com>
Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst b/Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst
index b29b0aac2717..f2c57de7992f 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/debugging/kgdb.rst
@@ -380,6 +380,13 @@ virtual address where the kernel image is mapped and confuses
gdb which resolves addresses of kernel symbols from the symbol table
of vmlinux.
+Kernel parameter: ``rodata``
+----------------------------
+
+``CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX`` is turned on by default and is not
+visible to menuconfig on some architectures (arm64 for example),
+you can pass ``rodata=off`` to the kernel in this case.
+
Using kdb
=========
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-16 5:05 UTC|newest]
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2026-01-16 5:03 junan [this message]
2026-01-19 14:49 ` Daniel Thompson
2026-01-19 14:54 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-01-20 21:57 ` Jonathan Corbet
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