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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-22 20:05:19 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-22 20:05:19 +0100
commitfc6fc7f1b1095b92d4834e69b385b91e412a7ce5 (patch)
tree2ad451d5dac4d460830536944cef1de93be36b2a /arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
parentef1f87aa7ba6224bef1b750b3272ba281d8f43ed (diff)
parent770824bdc421ff58a64db608294323571c949f4c (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic conflict resolution: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 8ca0d8566fc8..7be47d1a97e4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -508,18 +508,13 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
#endif
/*
- * Install the new, split up pagetable. Important details here:
+ * Install the new, split up pagetable.
*
- * On Intel the NX bit of all levels must be cleared to make a
- * page executable. See section 4.13.2 of Intel 64 and IA-32
- * Architectures Software Developer's Manual).
- *
- * Mark the entry present. The current mapping might be
- * set to not present, which we preserved above.
+ * We use the standard kernel pagetable protections for the new
+ * pagetable protections, the actual ptes set above control the
+ * primary protection behavior:
*/
- ref_prot = pte_pgprot(pte_mkexec(pte_clrhuge(*kpte)));
- pgprot_val(ref_prot) |= _PAGE_PRESENT;
- __set_pmd_pte(kpte, address, mk_pte(base, ref_prot));
+ __set_pmd_pte(kpte, address, mk_pte(base, __pgprot(_KERNPG_TABLE)));
base = NULL;
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