[PATCH] ARM: ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS only works with MMU enabled

[Laura Abbott]

On 1/13/2015 6:14 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The recently added ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS feature works by manipulating
> the kernel page tables, which obviously requires an MMU. Trying
> to enable this feature when the MMU is disabled results in a lot
> of compile errors in mm/init.c, so let's add a Kconfig dependency
> to avoid that case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> index eaaf196fe4e1..0051cd924fb1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -1010,6 +1010,7 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
>
>   config ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
>   	bool "Restrict kernel memory permissions"
> +	depends on MMU
>   	help
>   	  If this is set, kernel memory other than kernel text (and rodata)
>   	  will be made non-executable. The tradeoff is that each region is
>
>

Acked-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org>

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