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Long ago, perhaps only on i386, kernel text was mapped read-only and it was necessary to change the mapping to read-write to set breakpoints in kernel text. Other writes by ddb to kernel text were also allowed. This write protection is harder to implement with 4MB pages, and was lost even for 4K pages when 4MB pages were implemented. So changing the mapping became useless. It was actually worse than useless since it followed followed various null and otherwise garbage pointers to not change random memory instead of the mapping. (On i386s, the pointers became good in pmap_bootstrap(), and on amd64 the pointers became bad in pmap_bootstrap() if not before.) Another bug broke detection of following of null pointers on i386, except early in boot where not detecting this was a feature. When I fixed the bug, I accidentally broke the feature and soon got traps in db_write_bytes(). Setting breakpoints early in ddb was broken. kib pointed out that a clean way to do the adjustment would be to use a special [sub]map giving a small window on the bytes to be written. The trap handler didn't know how to fix up errors for pagefaults accessing the map itself. Such errors rarely need fixups, since most traps for the map are for the first access which is a read. Reviewed by: kib
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