[RFC 2/3] arm: mm: Define set_memory_* functions for ARM

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Jun 12 13:32:38 EDT 2013


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:23:29AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Other architectures define various set_memory functions to allow
> attributes to be changed (e.g. set_memory_x, set_memory_rw, etc.)
> Currently, these functions are missing on ARM. Define these in an
> appropriate manner for ARM.

Please ensure that these functions only accept arguments for the module
range; they will fail probably very noisily and destructively if they
encounter the section mappings which we use for the direct RAM mapping.



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