Hi, With the attached config and 4.3-rc2 on x86_64, I see the following in /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables: ... ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd 0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81600000 6M ro PSE GLB x pmd 0xffffffff81600000-0xffffffff81775000 1492K ro GLB x pte 0xffffffff81775000-0xffffffff81800000 556K RW GLB x pte ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff81a00000 2M ro PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81b43000 1292K ro GLB NX pte 0xffffffff81b43000-0xffffffff82000000 4852K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff82200000 2M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffffa0000000 478M pmd ... This region seems to be between the end of ex_table and the start of rodata, $ objdump -x vmlinux | sort ... ffffffff817728b0 g __ex_table 0000000000000000 __start___ex_table ffffffff817728b0 l d __ex_table 0000000000000000 __ex_table ffffffff81774998 g __ex_table 0000000000000000 __stop___ex_table ffffffff81800000 g .rodata 0000000000000000 __start_rodata ffffffff81800000 l d .rodata 0000000000000000 .rodata ... $ readelf -a vmlinux ... Section Headers: [Nr] Name Type Address Offset Size EntSize Flags Link Info Align ... [ 3] __ex_table PROGBITS ffffffff817728b0 009728b0 00000000000020e8 0000000000000000 A 0 0 8 [ 4] .rodata PROGBITS ffffffff81800000 00a00000 00000000002eefd2 0000000000000000 A 0 0 64 ... I see a similar rwx mapping with the stock Fedora kernels (e.g. 4.1.6), so it isn't new to 4.3. (fixed typo in x86 address; sorry for the re-send for others)