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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2008-02-15 15:49:46 -0500
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2008-02-18 14:54:14 -0500
commitaf96e4438a4b34a257f5318a296e0b9e182e7ab9 (patch)
tree95f07ce45975863025694ec3e51dd04f3aacd5a4 /arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
parent31eedd823c1bf3650c450346a0d0c39431034eb9 (diff)
x86: CPA no alias checking for _NX
NX settings are not required to be consistent across alias mappings. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 7b4a17236972..b8f53233151d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long addr, int numpages,
669 pgprot_t mask_set, pgprot_t mask_clr) 669 pgprot_t mask_set, pgprot_t mask_clr)
670{ 670{
671 struct cpa_data cpa; 671 struct cpa_data cpa;
672 int ret, cache; 672 int ret, cache, checkalias;
673 673
674 /* 674 /*
675 * Check, if we are requested to change a not supported 675 * Check, if we are requested to change a not supported
@@ -695,7 +695,10 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long addr, int numpages,
695 cpa.mask_clr = mask_clr; 695 cpa.mask_clr = mask_clr;
696 cpa.flushtlb = 0; 696 cpa.flushtlb = 0;
697 697
698 ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 1); 698 /* No alias checking for _NX bit modifications */
699 checkalias = (pgprot_val(mask_set) | pgprot_val(mask_clr)) != _PAGE_NX;
700
701 ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, checkalias);
699 702
700 /* 703 /*
701 * Check whether we really changed something: 704 * Check whether we really changed something: