[PATCH v2 05/20] ARM: LPAE: Introduce L_PTE_NOEXEC and L_PTE_NOWRITE

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Nov 17 12:34:42 EST 2010


On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 17:32 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:30:33PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 17:24 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:22:12PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > Ah, good point, that was the mask.
> > > >
> > > > So for dmacoherent we make sure that L_PTE_EXEC is cleared. I suspect
> > > > we should now make sure that L_PTE_NOEXEC is set. For the other two,
> > > > just leave them as they are.
> > >
> > > Already done:
> > >
> > >  #define pgprot_dmacoherent(prot) \
> > > -       __pgprot_modify(prot, L_PTE_MT_MASK|L_PTE_EXEC, L_PTE_MT_BUFFERABLE)
> > > +       __pgprot_modify(prot, L_PTE_MT_MASK, L_PTE_MT_BUFFERABLE|L_PTE_XN)
> > > ...
> > >  #define pgprot_dmacoherent(prot) \
> > > -       __pgprot_modify(prot, L_PTE_MT_MASK|L_PTE_EXEC, L_PTE_MT_UNCACHED)
> > > +       __pgprot_modify(prot, L_PTE_MT_MASK, L_PTE_MT_UNCACHED|L_PTE_XN)
> >
> > Are you already doing such changes? Just to avoid duplicating effort
> > (and use common naming scheme).
> 
> I did say that I had patches for all the issues I raised so far...  They're
> just in the process of being posted (if lists.infradead.org this time can
> cope with one patch every 20 secs...)

I wasn't sure which patches, so I did the XN/RDONLY as well (not big
patch though).

I'll rebase my LPAE stuff in the next days and repost.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin




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