Ftrace was one of the last W^X violators; these patches move it over to the generic text_poke() interface and thereby get rid of this oddity.
Very lightly tested...
- [PATCH 0/3] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text_poke() Peter Zijlstra
- [PATCH 1/3] x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to ... Peter Zijlstra
- Re: [PATCH 0/3] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text_poke() Peter Zijlstra
- Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/alternatives: Move tp_vec Peter Zijlstra
- Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] x86/ftrace: Use text_poke() Peter Zijlstra
- [PATCH 0/3] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text_poke() Peter Zijlstra
- [PATCH 3/3] x86/ftrace: Use text_poke() Peter Zijlstra
- [PATCH 1/3] x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp()... Peter Zijlstra
- [PATCH 2/3] x86/alternatives,jump_label: Provide b... Peter Zijlstra
- Re: [PATCH 0/3] Rewrite x86/ftrace to use text_pok... Song Liu
