[PATCHv4 2/2] arm64: Add CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX support

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Sep 10 01:47:05 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:58:01AM +0100, Zi Shen Lim wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 04:42:20PM +0100, Laura Abbott wrote:
> >> On 8/26/2014 7:40 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 08:41:43PM +0100, Laura Abbott wrote:
> >> >> --- /dev/null
> >> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
> >> > [...]
> >> >> +static int change_memory_common(unsigned long addr, int numpages,
> >> >> +                          pgprot_t set_mask, pgprot_t clear_mask)
> >> >> +{
> >> >> +  unsigned long start = addr;
> >> >> +  unsigned long size = PAGE_SIZE*numpages;
> >> >> +  unsigned long end = start + size;
> >> >> +  int ret;
> >> >> +  struct page_change_data data;
> >> >> +
> >> >> +  if (!IS_ALIGNED(addr, PAGE_SIZE)) {
> >> >> +          addr &= PAGE_MASK;
> 
> I don't see any uses of addr after this.
> Perhaps we also meant to compute start and end?


Actually, I think the alignment fixup should just be performed directly on
start, but this is Laura's code so it would be good if she could confirm.

Laura -- what's the right thing to do here? (sending a fix patch would be
ideal :)

Will



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